CVE-2026-40097Published

Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. From 0.24.0 to before 0.30.0-rc3, an attacker can trigger an index out-of-bounds panic in Step CA by sending a crafted attestation key (AK) …

Exact source revision recorded 25 Oct 2026 09:17:24 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.

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nvd · CVE-2026-40097

Published

Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. From 0.24.0 to before 0.30.0-rc3, an attacker can trigger an index out-of-bounds panic in Step CA by sending a crafted attestation key (AK) certificate with an empty Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension during TPM device attestation. When processing a device-attest-01 ACME challenge using TPM attestation, Step CA validates that the AK certificate contains the tcg-kp-AIKCertificate Extended Key Usage OID. During this validation, the EKU extension value is decoded from its ASN.1 representation and the first element is checked. A crafted certificate could include an EKU extension that decodes to an empty sequence, causing the code to panic when accessing the first element of the empty slice. This vulnerability is only reachable when a device-attest-01 ACME challenge with TPM attestation is configured. Deployments not using TPM device attestation are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.30.0-rc3.

NVD analysis and CPE criteria are source context, not proof that a package or your environment is affected. Complete affected data, logical configurations and SSVC are retained in the original JSON.

Source analysis status: Analyzed

Weakness classifications: CWE-129

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published: 2026-04-10T17:17:12.823

lastModified: 2026-06-17T10:44:43.090

3 source CPE criteria · context only

cpe:2.3:a:smallstep:step-ca:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:smallstep:step-ca:0.30.0:rc1:*:*:*:go:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:smallstep:step-ca:0.30.0:rc2:*:*:*:go:*:*

The original JSON retains the logical configuration operators, exclusions and version bounds.

Source published: 10 Apr 2026 17:17:12 UTC
Source modified: 17 Jun 2026 10:44:43 UTC
Observed here: 25 Oct 2026 09:17:24 UTC
Source terms: NIST NVD usage terms; underlying source attribution retained

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L