# CVE-2026-80110: Pki-core: dogtag pki v2 rest acl filter's reverse-lexicographic tie-break lets a ca agent invoke the admin-only raw profile creation endpoint

- 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: 2026-09-21 · Updated: 2026-10-21

## Affected

- dogtag-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: version range not reported
- pki-core: 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

## Description

A flaw was found in pki-core. The v2 REST ACL filter selects a tie-breaking permission for colliding literal and wildcard ACL keys using lexicographic string comparison rather than specificity, causing a wildcard-mapped permission to override a more specific literal-mapped permission when both match. In the CA's profile-management REST API this allows a request to POST /v2/profiles/raw -- intended to require Administrator-level profiles.create permission -- to instead be authorized under the lower-privileged profiles.approve permission held by the default Certificate Manager Agents group. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity of the certificate authority's issuance policy.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dogtag-pki, pki-core, pki-core:10.6/pki-core, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73765
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73766
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86621
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86623
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80110
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523749

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