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TI-2026-66954 Aliases GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh

nebula-mesh: Signed-poll nonce LRU is in-memory and bounded; replay survives restart + eviction

Priority LOW 38CWE-294Published · Updated

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

Fix Fixed github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go): 0.3.4

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go)before 0.3.40.3.4Patch availableGHSA-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

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh

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