sscep: error finalizing outer PKCS#7

[secure0]

Hello,

I am trying to use sscep from Centos 7 (FIPS enabled) to enroll with windows NDES.

The CSR doesn't seem to be finalized and it is failing as following :

sudo sscep enroll -E aes128 -S sha1 -c /etc/pki/cert.crt-0 -e/etc/pki/cert.crt-1 -O /etc/pki/certsignedby CA -K /etc/pki/local2.key -k local.key -r local.csr -l $(hostname).crt -u 'http://SERVER..local/certsrv/mscep/mscep.dll/pkiclient.exe?' -d

error log:
-----END PKCS7-----
sscep: creating outer PKCS#7
sscep: signature added successfully
sscep: adding signed attributes
sscep: adding string attribute transId
sscep: adding string attribute messageType
sscep: adding octet attribute senderNonce
sscep: PKCS#7 data written successfully
sscep: error finalizing outer PKCS#7
139998786868912:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no value:conf_lib.c:324:group= name=fips_path
139998786868912:error:0D074041:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_i2d_bio:malloc failure:a_i2d_fp.c:92:
139998786868912:error:3207B06D:lib(50):B_HASH_NEW:cr new:b_hash.c:74:
139998786868912:error:3207A06D:lib(50):B_HASH_init:cr new:b_hash.c:103:
139998786868912:error:3207B06D:lib(50):B_HASH_NEW:cr new:b_hash.c:74:
139998786868912:error:3207C06D:lib(50):B_HASH_Update:cr new:b_hash.c:148:
139998786868912:error:3207B06D:lib(50):B_HASH_NEW:cr new:b_hash.c:74:
139998786868912:error:3207906D:lib(50):B_HASH_Final:cr new:b_hash.c:186:
139998786868912:error:3207B06D:lib(50):B_HASH_NEW:cr new:b_hash.c:74:
139998786868912:error:3207A06D:lib(50):B_HASH_init:cr new:b_hash.c:103:
139998786868912:error:3207B06D:lib(50):B_HASH_NEW:cr new:b_hash.c:74:
139998786868912:error:3207C06D:lib(50):B_HASH_Update:cr new:b_hash.c:148:
139998786868912:error:3207B06D:lib(50):B_HASH_NEW:cr new:b_hash.c:74:
139998786868912:error:3207906D:lib(50):B_HASH_Final:cr new:b_hash.c:186:
139998786868912:error:3208906D:lib(50):B_RSA_sign:cr new:b_rsa.c:416:
[root@NW11HEAD anchors]#

Please advise about his issue. Could it be becuase FIPS is enabled.

[secure0]

any opinions ?