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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-71317 EUVD-2026-61156GHSA-g7p5-89mh-248hPYSEC-2026-3677

Lemur: Sub-CA creation never checks `AuthorityPermission` on the parent authority

Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 19, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Lemur manages TLS certificate creation. Prior to 1.9.3, POST /api/1/authorities with type=subca did not require AuthorityPermission on the parent authority when ADMIN_ONLY_AUTHORITY_CREATION was false. AssociatedAuthoritySchema resolved the caller-supplied parent and passed it through authority creation to cryptography-issuer, which used the parent authority_certificate.private_key to sign a new intermediate. Any authenticated non-read-only user in that supported configuration could chain a sub-CA to an internal root for which the user held no role. The resulting intermediate could issue trusted certificates and its private key could be used outside Lemur, bypassing normal issuance controls. The fix checks AuthorityPermission on every supplied parent before invoking the issuer. This issue is fixed in version 1.9.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Netflix lemur < 1.9.3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI lemur < 1.9.3 1.9.3 GHSA-g7p5-89mh-248h

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