Red Hat pki-core: improper authorization
A flaw was found in pki-core. The v2 REST ACL filter selects a tie-breaking permission for colliding literal and wildcard ACL keys using lexicographic string comparison rather than specificity, causing a wildcard-mapped permission to override a more specific literal-mapped permission when both match. In the CA's profile-management REST API this allows a request to POST /v2/profiles/raw -- intended to require Administrator-level profiles.create permission -- to instead be authorized under the lower-privileged profiles.approve permission held by the default Certificate Manager Agents group. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity of the certificate authority's issuance policy.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Certificate System 9 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80110
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80110
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73765
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73766
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86621
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86623
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80110
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523749