Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ipa security and bug fix update

An update for ipa is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

CVE-2017-2590

It was found that IdM's ca-del, ca-disable, and ca-enable commands did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying CAs in Dogtag. An authenticated, unauthorized attacker could use this flaw to delete, disable, or enable CAs causing various denial of service problems with certificate...

Buggy Domain Validation Forces GoDaddy to Revoke Certs

GoDaddy has revoked, and begun the process of re-issuing, new SSL certificates for more than 6,000 customers after a bug was discovered in the registrar’s domain validation process. The bug was introduced July 29 and impacted fewer than two percent of the certificates GoDaddy issued from that dat...

Google to Make Certificate Transparency Mandatory By 2017

Google is making Certificate Transparency mandatory for its Chrome web browser by October 2017. Google software engineer Ryan Sleevi made the announcement in conjunction with the CA/Browser Forum that took place in Redmond, Washington last week. The move is an attempt to reduce the number of doma...

Apple To Block WoSign Intermediate Certificates

Apple weighed in on the ongoing WoSign fiasco over the weekend, saying it would soon distrust certificates issued by the Chinese Certificate Authority’s Free SSL Certificate G2 intermediate CA on macOS. Apple’s decision comes several days after Mozilla accused the CA of backdating SHA-1...

CVE-2016-0818

The caching functionality in the TrustManagerImpl class in TrustManagerImpl.java in Conscrypt in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H, and 6.x before 2016-03-01 mishandles the distinction between an intermediate CA and a trusted root CA, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to...

Struts2 Remote Command Execution Vulnerability in Palm Ticket Issuance System

Pocket Airline Ticket Issuance System is a ticket issuance system of Beijing Aihong Technology Co. A Struts2 remote command execution vulnerability exists in the Pocket Ticket Issuance System. This vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely execute commands to gain server privileges...

DigiCert Offers Continuous Monitoring of Digital Certificates to Defeat Fraud

It’s an interesting time for certificate authorities. On the one hand, interest has never been higher in Web encryption, privacy and transport security, thanks to Edward Snowden. But on the other hand, the last few years has seen a steady stream of compromises of CAs, mis-issued certificates and...

​Jeremy Rowley on the Facebook Tor Cert & the Future of PKI

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert about the company’s decision to issue a certificate for Facebook’s .onion site, the challenge of key protection in today’s environment and what the near future holds for PKI. Download: digitalunderground170.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Google Constrains India CCA Root Cert in Wake of Bad Google and Yahoo Certificates

The Indian Controller of Certifying Authorities said that the certificate-issuance process for the National Informatics Centre of India, which issued several fraudulent certificates recently, which were blocked by Google, has been compromised and Google has decided to constrain India CCA’s root...

CVE-2014-2783

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 does not prevent use of wildcard EV SSL certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof a trust level by leveraging improper issuance of a wildcard certificate by a recognized Certification Authority, aka "Extended Validation EV Certificate...

PT-2014-3490

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.5.x through 2.5.4 Moodle versions 2.6.x through 2.6.1 Description The issue concerns the improper tracking of badge issuance to users, allowing remote authenticated users to modify the visibility of arbitrary badges...

CVE-2014-1959: Undefined Security Weakness

lib/x509/verify.c in GnuTLS before 3.1.21 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-tahrir-0.5.2-1.fc19

tahrir is a Pyramid app for issuing your own Open Badges. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges...

gnutls: incorrect handling of V1 intermediate certificates

GnuTLS before 2.7.6, when the GNUTLSVERIFYALLOWX509V1CACRT flag is not enabled, treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates, a different...

PT-2014-2069

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GnuTLS versions prior to 2.7.6 Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates. This occurs when the GNUTLS VERIFY ALLOW X509 V1 CA...

Fixing Trust Through Certificate Transparency

SAN FRANCISCO–The security of data being transmitted over the Web relies on a large number of moving parts, from the integrity of the machine sending the data, to the security of the browser, to the implementation of encryption, to the fragility of the certificate authority system. Experts have...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1959

lib/x509/verify.c in GnuTLS before 3.1.21 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : nss (ELSA-2013-1861)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2013:1861 : Updated nss packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries...

CVE-2013-3926

Atlassian Crowd 2.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via unspecified vectors related to a "symmetric backdoor." NOTE: as of 20130704, the vendor could not reproduce the issue, stating "We've been unable to substantiate the existence of CVE-2013-3926. The author of the artic...