Certighost and the Privilege Hiding in Your Certificate Authority

CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier 0 identity infrastructure it has always been. [...]

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additional: CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier 0 identity infrastructure it has always been. [...]
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