CVE-2026-44362 PUBLISHED

OP-TEE's subkey rollback protection can be bypassed with older subkey versions

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 06.07.2026 Updated: 06.07.2026

OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Starting in version 3.20.0 and prior to version 4.11.0, a vulnerability in OP-TEE’s subkey rollback protection allows the use of revoked or older subkey versions because the system fails to propagate versioning data during the Trusted Application (TA) loading process. In core/crypto/signed_hdr.c, the function shdr_load_pub_key() parses subkey headers but does not assign the subkey_version to the runtime shdr_pub_key structure. As a result, the key->version field remains at zero regardless of the version specified in the header. When ree_fs_ta_open() in core/kernel/ree_fs_ta.c calls check_update_version(), it passes this zeroed version to the rollback database. Because the database never receives a non-zero version to record, it never advances, effectively bypassing the rollback check and allowing TAs signed with downgraded subkey chains to load successfully. This impacts OP-TEE mainline configurations that utilize subkey-based signing chains for Trusted Application (TA) authentication. Version 4.11.0 contains a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.5

Product Status

Vendor OP-TEE
Product optee_os
Versions
  • Version >= 3.20.0, < 4.11.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-285: Improper Authorization CWE