CVE-2020-15720

A flaw was found in PKI, where the dogtag's pki.client.PKIConnection class disables the python-requests certificate validation. This flaw allows an attacker to intercept a connection between a FreeIPA client and a server, and execute an active Man-in-the-Middle attack. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

In PKI, the pki.client.PKIConnection python class is used by the pki-server and pkispawn commands. pki-server runs locally on the server, thus not subject to a Person in the Middle attack. pkispawn may access remote node in decentralized or cloned contexts.

Identity Management (IPA) command line interface (the vault related sub-commands) may call pki.client.PKIConnection().

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