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CVE-2021-3551

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-3551 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting PKI-server products, including dogtagpki, fedoraproject, oracle, and redhat. It allows a local attacker to obtain administrator credentials by exploiting a flaw in the spkispawn command when run in debug mode, which logs admin passwords to the installation file. This grants the attacker full administrative privileges to the Dogtag CA manager, posing a significant threat to confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 10.10.0, < 10.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dogtagpki:dogtagpki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
8.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: pki-core:10.6-8040020210519185901.17df0a3f
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 10Fixed in: pki-core

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-3551Important

pki-server: Dogtag installer "pkispawn" logs admin credentials into a world-readable log file

Jun 3, 2021

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory