CVE-2021-3698

A flaw was found in Cockpit in the way it handles the certificate verification performed by the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). This flaw allows client certificates to authenticate successfully, regardless of the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) configuration or the certificate status. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3 has transitioned to the maintenance phase of the product life cycle and receives only qualified Critical and Important impact security fixes. This issue has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3 Life Cycle Policy - https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift_noncurrent

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