PT-2026-56108 · Go · Github.Com/Juev/Nebula-Mesh

Published

2026-06-26

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Updated

2026-06-26

CVSS v4.0

2.7

Low

VectorAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
internal/api/pop/nonce.go:25,40,86 + internal/api/server.go:38 — the signed-poll nonce cache is an in-process LRU sized at 65,536 entries. internal/api/updates.go:31 sets pollClockSkew = 5 * time.Minute as the replay window.

Affected

All released versions through v0.3.0 that have shipped the ADR 0004 signed-poll path. (If this is gated behind a feature flag, on a side branch, or not yet on a release tag, please flag — this advisory may not apply to the released artifact yet.)

Threat model

A captured signed-poll request can be replayed:
  1. After any process restart — the in-memory LRU is wiped, so the original nonce becomes "unseen" again. Replay succeeds if the original timestamp is still within the 5-minute skew.
  2. After forced eviction — an attacker with control of any single host can flood >65,536 nonces under their own host id, driving the global LRU to evict the victim's recorded nonce. Replay then succeeds.
Impact is bounded: a replayed poll fetches the /api/v1/agent/updates body. That body can include a freshly-minted enrollment token if a rekey is pending (updates.go:249-260) — at which point the attacker holds a single-use token they can redeem under their own keypair.

Suggested fix

Two options, either acceptable:
  1. Persist nonces in SQLite keyed by (host id, nonce) with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, retained for the timestamp-skew window. Adds one transactional INSERT per poll; bounded by the skew window (~5 min worth of rows server-wide).
  2. Per-host cap on the LRU instead of a global 65k cap, so one host cannot evict another's records. Combined with shorter skew (≤30s) to bound the post-restart replay window.
Option 1 is more robust; option 2 is lower-implementation-effort.

Fix

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-294

Related Identifiers

GHSA-V2JF-442R-6MJH

Affected Products

Github.Com/Juev/Nebula-Mesh