GHSA-q4r8-xm5f-56gw: github.com/smallstep/certificates (CVE-2026-30836)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
github.com/smallstep/certificates	Go	<0.30.0	0.30.0

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Step CA (Go package github.com/smallstep/certificates) versions before 0.30.0 let an attacker make a SCEP provisioner issue certificates without the SCEP authorization checks. The flaw is that unsupported but valid SCEP message types skip authorization logic. Upgrade to version 0.30.0 or newer; if you cannot, temporarily disable or remove SCEP provisioners, or restrict them to trusted clients.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
10.0	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0032, the 25th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:14 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:14 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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