CVE-2026-32691 PUBLISHED

Timing ownership claim attack on new external back-end secrets

Assigner: canonical
Reserved: 13.03.2026 Published: 18.03.2026 Updated: 18.03.2026

A race condition in the secrets management subsystem of Juju versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to claim ownership of a newly initialized secret. Between generating a Juju Secret ID and creating the secret's first revision, an attacker authenticated as another unit agent can claim ownership of a known secret. This leads to the attacking unit being able to read the content of the initial secret revision.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor Canonical
Product Juju
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.0.0 to 3.6.19 (excl.)

Credits

  • Harry Pidcock finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-708 Incorrect ownership assignment CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions