CVE-2025-66406 (GCVE-0-2025-66406)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-03 19:13
Modified
2025-12-03 21:40
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. Prior to 0.29.0, there is an improper authorization check for SSH certificate revocation. This affects deployments configured with the SSHPOP provisioner. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.29.0.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
smallstep certificates Version: < 0.29.0
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