Affected: Netflix lemur

Lemur manages TLS certificate creation. Prior to 1.9.3, CertificateExport placed its CertificatePermission ownership check inside the plugin.requires_key branch for POST /api/1/certificates//export. A plugin declaring requires_key false bypassed that check, and the handler still passed cert.private_key as an argument and recorded a key_view audit event. The bundled JavaTruststoreExportPlugin ignored the key, so the immediate exposure was limited to public certificate material and misleading audit entries, but a future plugin could have consumed the supplied key. The fix passes no private key to plugins that do not require one and confines ownership checks and key_view logging to actual private-key exports. This issue is fixed in version 1.9.3.

Affected: PyPI: lemur

## Summary The `CertificateExport` handler in `lemur/certificates/views.py` nests its entire ownership / `CertificatePermission` check inside an `if plugin.requires_key:` branch. When the selected export plugin advertises `requires_key = False`, the authorization check is skipped entirely and any authenticated user can invoke `plugin.export(cert.body, cert.chain, cert.private_key, options)` against a certificate they do not own. The handler additionally writes a `"key_view"` audit-log event for every call, regardless of whether the plugin actually accessed the private key, polluting the audit trail with false positives. ## Root Cause `lemur/certificates/views.py:1573`: ```python if plugin.requires_key: if not cert.private_key: return (..., 400) else: if g.current_user != cert.user: owner_role = role_service.get_by_name(cert.owner) permission = CertificatePermission(owner_role, [x.name for x in cert.roles]) if not permission.can(): return (..., 403) log_service.create(g.current_user, "key_view", certificate=cert) # always logged extension, passphrase, data = plugin.export( cert.body, cert.chain, cert.private_key, options ) ``` The authorization gate is structurally inside the `if plugin.requires_key:` block. With `requires_key = False`, control falls straight through to `plugin.export(...)` with no ownership check. The `cert.private_key` is passed to the plugin regardless of the flag…