High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file. This flaw allows a local attacker to retrieve the file to obtain the admin password and gain admin privileges to the Dogtag CA manager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3551
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file. This flaw allows a local attacker to retrieve the file to obtain the admin password and gain admin privileges to the Dogtag CA manager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
osv:CVE-2021-3551
Complete source record
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