Dogtag CA dogtag-pki/pki-core ldap injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Dogtag CA. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component dogtag-pki/pki-core. This manipulation causes ldap injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-4727. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Dogtag CA (unknown version) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component dogtag-pki/pki-core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a ldap injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-90. The product constructs all or part of an LDAP query using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended LDAP query when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in dogtag-pki and pki-core. The token authentication scheme can be bypassed with a LDAP injection. By passing the query string parameter sessionID=*, an attacker can authenticate with an existing session saved in the LDAP directory server, which may lead to escalation of privilege.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-4727 since 09/01/2023. The exploitation appears to be easy. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/13/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1505 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 235593 (RockyLinux 8 : pki-core (RLSA-2024:4367)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (235593) and EUVD (EUVD-2023-54575). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.9

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Ldap injection
CWE: CWE-90 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 235593
Nessus Name: RockyLinux 8 : pki-core (RLSA-2024:4367)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

09/01/2023 🔍
06/11/2024 +284 days 🔍
06/11/2024 +0 days 🔍
09/13/2025 +459 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2023-4727 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-4727
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-267979
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/11/2024 17:44
Updated: 09/13/2025 04:57
Changes: 06/11/2024 17:44 (50), 06/14/2024 08:33 (13), 05/08/2025 07:55 (3), 09/13/2025 04:57 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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