Ca-certificates: distrust emudhra intermediate ca certificates due to security concerns
Impact
The system certificate authority (CA) store in Red Hat products, distributed via ca-certificates RPM packages, included multiple root CA certificates of authorities, which signed intermediate CA certificates with weak private keys issued by the eMudhra certificate authority. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to issue certificates for arbitrary host names signed by the weak intermediate CA certificates, which would be considered trusted by a TLS/SSL client using system CA store and cause such clients to connect to malicious sites.
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Affected packages
Affected products
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Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-100.3.el10_2 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-100.3.el10_0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-60.3.el6_10 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION
Other versions: affected
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| 0:3.44.0-15.el6_10 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-70.3.el7_9 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-81.3.el8_10 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-80.3.el8_4 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-80.3.el8_6 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-80.3.el8_6 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-80.3.el8_8 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-80.3.el8_8 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-90.3.el9_8 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-90.3.el9_2 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-90.3.el9_4 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support
Other versions: affected
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| 0:2026.2.92_v9.0.319-90.3.el9_6 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
Other versions: affected
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| 412.86.202610250235-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
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| 414.92.202610242240-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
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| 416.94.202610242150-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18
Other versions: affected
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| 418.94.202610242013-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19
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| 4.19.9.6.202610241701-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20
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| 4.20.9.6.202610242033-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
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| 4.21.9.6.202610241345-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22
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| 4.22.9.8.202610241758-0 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened Images
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| 2026.2.92_v9.0.319-1.hum1 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792840135 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792835365 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792835298 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792836805 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792844269 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792837466 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792838794 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792837567 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.8.3
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| 1792851895 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792837598 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792837398 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792838765 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792835879 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792859629 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792857112 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792840655 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792839475 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Builds 1.9.2
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| 1792835571 to before * | unaffected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
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Original source description
The system certificate authority (CA) store in Red Hat products, distributed via ca-certificates RPM packages, included multiple root CA certificates of authorities, which signed intermediate CA certificates with weak private keys issued by the eMudhra certificate authority. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to issue certificates for arbitrary host names signed by the weak intermediate CA certificates, which would be considered trusted by a TLS/SSL client using system CA store and cause such clients to connect to malicious sites.
Due to inability to only distrust specific intermediate certificates in all clients using the system CA store, root CA certificates of authorities that signed weak intermediate CA certificates are being removed.
References
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- Security advisory access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-114406
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- Source reference bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi