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JSS: OCSP policy "Leaf and Chain" implicitly trusts the root certificate

Published Oct 14, 2019

Description

A flaw was found in the "Leaf and Chain" OCSP policy implementation in JSS' CryptoManager versions after 4.4.6, 4.5.3, 4.6.0, where it implicitly trusted the root certificate of a certificate chain. Applications using this policy may not properly verify the chain and could be vulnerable to attacks such as Man in the Middle.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Certificate System 9.4 and above use the vulnerable policy. Red Hat Enterprise Satellite 6 does not ship a vulnerable version of the JSS library.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Oct 14, 2019
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Aug 10, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Oct 14, 2019