CVE-2026-61699 PUBLISHED

nebula-mesh: Certificate revocation is never enforced at the mesh

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 10.07.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

nebula-mesh is a self-hosted control plane for Slack Nebula mesh VPN. Prior to version 0.7.1, revocation is the only in-band mechanism that isolates a compromised/offboarded host from a Nebula mesh. Because the blocklist never reaches any peer's config.yml, a Blocked host retains full overlay reachability to every peer under its CA (and internal services on the mesh) for up to 30d (agent) / 365d (mobile). An attacker who exfiltrates host.key+host.crt can run stock slackhq/nebula directly, ignore the agent's 403/410 poll responses, and stay connected after the operator revokes the host. Operator-visible state (UI shows blocked, audit log records it) is misleading. This issue has been patched in version 0.7.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor forgekeep
Product nebula-mesh
Versions
  • Version < 0.7.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-299: Improper Check for Certificate Revocation CWE
  • CWE-672: Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release CWE