CVE-2026-71322 PUBLISHED

Lemur: Missing authorization check on POST /certificates/<id>/export for plugins with requires_key = False

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.08.2026 Published: 18.08.2026 Updated: 18.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor Netflix
Product lemur
Versions
  • Version < 1.9.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE