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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-55512 EUVD-2026-71718GHSA-m3cx-mwpg-32jgGO-2026-5989

nebula-mesh: Unauthenticated OIDC login endpoint allocates unbounded in-memory state entries without rate limiting

Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

nebula-mesh is a self-hosted control plane for Slack Nebula mesh VPN. From version 0.2.0 to before version 0.5.0, when OIDC is enabled, GET /ui/oidc/login is reachable without authentication and is registered outside the Web UI rate-limited auth routes. Every request creates a fresh random OIDC state value and stores it in an in-memory map for 10m. Expired states are swept lazily, but there is no rate limit or maximum live-state cap on the allocation path. An unauthenticated remote client can therefore grow OIDC.states for the full state TTL, bounded by request throughput rather than by configured auth rate limits. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
forgekeep nebula-mesh >= 0.2.0, < 0.5.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/forgekeep/nebula-mesh >= 0.2.0, < 0.5.0 0.5.0 GHSA-m3cx-mwpg-32jg
Go github.com/forgekeep/nebula-mesh >= 0.4.0, < 0.5.0 0.5.0 GO-2026-5989
Go github.com/juev/nebula-mesh >= 0.2.0 — GO-2026-5989

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