CVE-2026-114406 Ca-certificates: distrust emudhra intermediate ca certificates due to security concerns
Description
The system certificate authority (CA) store in Red Hat products, distributed via ca-certificates RPM packages, included multiple root CA certificates of authorities, which signed intermediate CA certificates with weak private keys issued by the eMudhra certificate authority. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to issue certificates for arbitrary host names signed by the weak intermediate CA certificates, which would be considered trusted by a TLS/SSL client using system CA store and cause such clients to connect to malicious sites. Due to inability to only distrust specific intermediate certificates in all clients using the system CA store, root CA certificates of authorities that signed weak intermediate CA certificates are being removed.
Détail CVSS 3.1
Vecteur CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitable à distance par le réseau, sans compte et si un utilisateur effectue une action ; un attaquant peut compromettre gravement la confidentialité, l’intégrité ou la disponibilité.
- Vecteur d’attaque
- Réseau
- Complexité
- Élevée
- Privilèges requis
- Aucun
- Interaction
- Requise
- Portée
- Inchangée
- Confidentialité
- Élevé
- Intégrité
- Élevé
- Disponibilité
- Aucun
Produits et versions touchés
| Produit | Versions touchées | Corrigé en |
|---|---|---|
| Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2 | Versions non publiées | |
| cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift | Versions non publiées | |
| Confidential Compute Attestation | Versions non publiées | |
| Kernel Module Management Operator for Red Hat Openshift | Versions non publiées | |
| Kube Descheduler Operator | Versions non publiées | |
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Versions non publiées | |
| Logical Volume Manager Storage | Versions non publiées | |
| Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 | Versions non publiées | |
| Migration Toolkit for Containers | Versions non publiées |