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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-61699 EUVD-2026-71720GHSA-cm26-5974-52h8GO-2026-5986

nebula-mesh: Certificate revocation is never enforced at the mesh

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. Prior to version 0.7.1, revocation is the only in-band mechanism that isolates a compromised/offboarded host from a Nebula mesh. Because the blocklist never reaches any peer's config.yml, a Blocked host retains full overlay reachability to every peer under its CA (and internal services on the mesh) for up to 30d (agent) / 365d (mobile). An attacker who exfiltrates host.key+host.crt can run stock slackhq/nebula directly, ignore the agent's 403/410 poll responses, and stay connected after the operator revokes the host. Operator-visible state (UI shows blocked, audit log records it) is misleading. This issue has been patched in version 0.7.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
forgekeep nebula-mesh < 0.7.1 —

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 < 0.7.1 0.7.1 GHSA-cm26-5974-52h8

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