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CVE-2025-66406 (GCVE-0-2025-66406)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 19:13 – Updated: 2025-12-03 21:40
VLAI?
Summary
Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. Prior to 0.29.0, there is an improper authorization check for SSH certificate revocation. This affects deployments configured with the SSHPOP provisioner. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.29.0.
Severity ?
5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| smallstep | certificates |
Affected:
< 0.29.0
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