Krill treats a "local parent" as already-authenticated, letting a CA operator act as any child of any CA on the same server

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-109142
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerNLnet Labs
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-11-02 16:17:27 UTC
Updated2026-11-02 19:35:33 UTC
DescriptionWhen a CA's parent lives on the same Krill server: instead of building and verifying a signed CMS message, it runs the RFC 6492 provisioning exchange in-process and trusts the child identity (child_handle) that the caller put in the parent contact. Nothing checks that this child identity actually belongs to the CA making the request.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 8.4 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Problem Types: CWE-639 | CWE-639 CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary8.4HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
3.1CNACVSS8.4HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA NLnet Labs Krill unaffected 0.16.1 * semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/krill/CVE-2026-109142.txt [email protected] www.nlnetlabs.nl
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Anthropic and Ada Logics (en)

Additional Advisory Data

SourceTimeEvent
CNA2026-10-03T00:00:00.000ZIssue reported
CNA2026-11-02T00:00:00.000ZFixes released

Solutions

CNA: This issue is fixed in 0.16.1 and all later versions.

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