Re: Symantec Response R

2017-04-11 Thread Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
My understanding is that the QuickInvite system doesn't distinguish the reseller from their customer in terms of access to the order. It's not very clear from Symantec's documentation, and Tarah never got back to me in the thread about it, but I think a reseller absolutely can wait for their

Re: Symantec Response R

2017-04-10 Thread Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:57:41PM +, Steve Medin via dev-security-policy wrote: > In April 2015, security consultant Chris Byrne responsibly disclosed two > potential vulnerabilities related to our Quick Invite feature, which > enables a reseller to invite pre-selected customers to enroll

Re: Symantec Response R

2017-04-10 Thread Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
On Monday, 10 April 2017 20:28:53 UTC+1, michael...@gmail.com wrote: > A couple points of clarification please: > > 1) Mr. Byrne clarified his post to note that the flaws in the Symantec API > would allow: retrieval of certificates that included private keys, not the > private keys alone. Was

Re: Symantec Response R

2017-04-10 Thread michaeltheller--- via dev-security-policy
A couple points of clarification please: 1) Mr. Byrne clarified his post to note that the flaws in the Symantec API would allow: retrieval of certificates that included private keys, not the private keys alone. Was this possible? 2) You say, "it's not technically feasible", which implies

Re: Symantec Response R

2017-04-10 Thread Alex Gaynor via dev-security-policy
Hi Steve, Tiny nit-picky follow up question. You said: "it's technically not feasible. This is because Symantec does not have access to our customers' TLS server private keys.". X.509 certificates can of course be used for things besides TLS, when you say "TLS server private keys", is that

Symantec Response R

2017-04-10 Thread Steve Medin via dev-security-policy
Issue R: Insecure Issuance API (2013 or earlier - November 2016) In April 2015, security consultant Chris Byrne responsibly disclosed two potential vulnerabilities related to our Quick Invite feature, which enables a reseller to invite pre-selected customers to enroll for certificates, via