nebula-mesh: Signed-poll nonce LRU is in-memory and bounded; replay survives restart + eviction
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-294.
Summary
`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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
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| — | github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go) | before 0.3.4 | 0.3.4 | Patch available | GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh |
- github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.3.4 Fixed in 0.3.4 Patch available GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go) Fixed in 0.3.4 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh
References
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