CVE-2017-7509

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (6.5) in redhat certificate system. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An input validation error was found in Red Hat Certificate System's handling of client provided certificates before 8.1.20-1. If the certreq field is not present in a certificate an assertion error is triggered causing a denial of service.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 54% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2018-07-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

redhat:certificate_system

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039248
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2560
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7509
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039248
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2560

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