NVD HIGH: CVE-2026-104988 — A flaw was found in Dogtag PKI (pki-core). The CMCAuthForEST authentication plug...

Friday, October 2, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC·Source: NIST NVD

Updated: Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 05:00 PM UTC

Executive Summary

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 use

Analysis

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)

CVE-2026-104988

NVD MITRE CVE

Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Oct 2, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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