# CVE-2026-104988: Pki-core: dogtag-pki: redhat-pki: pki: est fullcmc authentication bypass allows certificate mis-issuance with arbitrary subject

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-02 · Updated: 2026-10-05

## Affected

- redhat-pki:10/redhat-pki: version range not reported
- redhat-pki: version range not reported
- pki-core: version range not reported
- redhat-pki: version range not reported
- dogtag-pki: version range not reported
- pki-core: version range not reported
- pki-core: version range not reported
- pki-core:10.6/pki-core: version range not reported
- pki-core: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Dogtag PKI (pki-core). The CMCAuthForEST authentication plugin fails open when an EST fullcmc enrollment request is submitted via BasicAuth without an end-user TLS client certificate. The SSL_CLIENT_CERT session attribute retains the EST subsystem's agent certificate, which causes downstream authorization checks to treat the request as agent-privileged. An authenticated EST user can exploit this to obtain CA-signed certificates with arbitrary subject names.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on redhat-pki:10/redhat-pki, redhat-pki, pki-core or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104988
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2545316

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