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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-55513 EUVD-2026-71719GHSA-g4x6-jcvr-9m3gGO-2026-5987

nebula-mesh: Web UI host creation ignores configured enrollment token TTL and mints 24-hour bearer enrollment tokens

Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

nebula-mesh is a self-hosted control plane for Slack Nebula mesh VPN. From version 0.3.0 to before version 0.5.0, the nebula-mgmt Web UI host-creation path ignores both the server-wide enrollment_token_ttl security setting and per-network network_config.enrollment_token_ttl overrides. API host creation and token-regeneration paths use the configured TTL resolver, but POST /ui/hosts hardcodes now.Add(24 * time.Hour) for newly minted agent enrollment tokens. In deployments that intentionally reduce enrollment-token lifetime, any authenticated operator who can create a host through the Web UI can still mint a bearer enrollment token valid for about 24 hours. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
forgekeep nebula-mesh >= 0.3.0, < 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 >= 0.3.0, < 0.5.0 0.5.0 GHSA-g4x6-jcvr-9m3g
Go github.com/forgekeep/nebula-mesh >= 0.4.0, < 0.5.0 0.5.0 GO-2026-5987
Go github.com/juev/nebula-mesh >= 0.3.0 — GO-2026-5987

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