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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2025-44005

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CVE-2025-44005

github.com/smallstep/certificates: github.com/smallstep/certificates: Authorization bypass allows unauthorized certificate creation

Published Modified CWE 287
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

GHSA10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Red Hat10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by GHSA, Red Hat.

Description

An attacker can bypass authorization checks and force a Step CA ACME or SCEP provisioner to create certificates without completing certain protocol authorization checks.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
go::GitHub Security Advisory Gogithub.com/smallstep/certificates0.29.0
alpine 3.22step-certificates0.29.0-r0
alpine 3.23step-certificates0.29.0-r0
alpine 3.24step-certificates0.29.0-r0
alpine edgestep-certificates0.29.0-r0
chainguardcaddy, caddy-fips2.10.2-r6
minimoscaddy2.10.2-r5
rapidfort alpine 3.20step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.21step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.22step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.24step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort fedora 43caddy2.10.2-9.fc43
Show all 15 entries from 14 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
go::GitHub Security Advisory Gogithub.com/smallstep/certificates0.29.0
alpine 3.22step-certificates0.29.0-r0
alpine 3.23step-certificates0.29.0-r0
alpine 3.24step-certificates0.29.0-r0
alpine edgestep-certificates0.29.0-r0
chainguardcaddy2.10.2-r6
chainguardcaddy-fips2.10.2-r6
minimoscaddy2.10.2-r5
rapidfort alpine 3.20step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.21step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.22step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort alpine 3.24step-certificates0.29.0-r0
rapidfort fedora 43caddy2.10.2-9.fc43
rapidfort Oracle Linux 10caddy2.10.2-9.el10_3
wolficaddy2.10.2-r6

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.