CVE-2022-21672

make-ca is a utility to deliver and manage a complete PKI configuration for workstations and servers. Starting with version 0.9 and prior to version 1.10, make-ca misinterprets Mozilla certdata.txt and treats explicitly untrusted certificates like trusted ones, causing those explicitly untrusted certificates trusted by the system. The explicitly untrusted certificates were used by some CAs already hacked. Hostile attackers may perform a MIM attack exploiting them. Everyone using the affected versions of make-ca should upgrade to make-ca-1.10, and run `make-ca -f -g` as the `root` user to regenerate the trusted store immediately. As a workaround, users may delete the untrusted certificates from /etc/pki/tls and /etc/ssl/certs manually (or by a script), but this is not recommended because the manual changes will be overwritten next time running make-ca to update the trusted anchor.
References
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:linuxfromscratch:make-ca:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

24 Jan 2022, 19:40

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:a:linuxfromscratch:make-ca:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
First Time Linuxfromscratch
Linuxfromscratch make-ca
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 4.3
v3 : 6.5
References (MISC) https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/pull/20 - (MISC) https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/pull/20 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/issues/19 - (MISC) https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/issues/19 - Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/blfs-support/2022-01/msg00020.html - (MISC) https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/blfs-support/2022-01/msg00020.html - Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
References (CONFIRM) https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/security/advisories/GHSA-m5qh-728v-4xrx - (CONFIRM) https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/security/advisories/GHSA-m5qh-728v-4xrx - Patch, Third Party Advisory

10 Jan 2022, 22:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2022-01-10 21:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:09


NVD link : CVE-2022-21672

Mitre link : CVE-2022-21672

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-21672


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Products Affected

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  • make-ca
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other CWE-115

Misinterpretation of Input