{"id":"GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh","title":"nebula-mesh: Signed-poll nonce LRU is in-memory and bounded; replay survives restart + eviction","summary":"nebula-mesh: Signed-poll nonce LRU is in-memory and bounded; replay survives restart + eviction","severity":"low","cwe":["CWE-294"],"vendor":"juev","product":"github.com/juev/nebula-mesh","ecosystem":"go","affected":["github.com/juev/nebula-mesh <= 0.3.3"],"patched":["github.com/juev/nebula-mesh 0.3.4"],"published":"2026-06-26","updated":"2026-06-26","source":"GHSA","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/juev/nebula-mesh/security/advisories/GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh"}],"tags":["ghsa","go"],"ingestedAt":"2026-06-29T13:24:35.249Z","slug":"GHSA-v2jf-442r-6mjh","body":"## Overview\n\n`internal/api/pop/nonce.go:25,40,86` + `internal/api/server.go:38` — the signed-poll nonce cache is an in-process LRU sized at 65,536 entries. `internal/api/updates.go:31` sets `pollClockSkew = 5 * time.Minute` as the replay window.\n\n## Affected\nAll released versions through v0.3.0 that have shipped the ADR 0004 signed-poll path. (If this is gated behind a feature flag, on a side branch, or not yet on a release tag, please flag — this advisory may not apply to the released artifact yet.)\n\n## Threat model\nA captured signed-poll request can be replayed:\n\n1. **After any process restart** — the in-memory LRU is wiped, so the original nonce becomes \"unseen\" again. Replay succeeds if the original timestamp is still within the 5-minute skew.\n2. **After forced eviction** — an attacker with control of any single host can flood >65,536 nonces under their own host_id, driving the global LRU to evict the victim's recorded nonce. Replay then succeeds.\n\nImpact is bounded: a replayed poll fetches the `/api/v1/agent/updates` body. That body can include a freshly-minted enrollment token if a rekey is pending (`updates.go:249-260`) — at which point the attacker holds a single-use token they can redeem under their own keypair.\n\n## Suggested fix\nTwo options, either acceptable:\n\n1. Persist nonces in SQLite keyed by `(host_id, nonce)` with `ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING`, retained for the timestamp-skew window. Adds one transactional INSERT per poll; bounded by the skew window (~5 min worth of rows server-wide).\n2. Per-host cap on the LRU instead of a global 65k cap, so one host cannot evict another's records. Combined with shorter skew (≤30s) to bound the post-restart replay window.\n\nOption 1 is more robust; option 2 is lower-implementation-effort.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `github.com/juev/nebula-mesh <= 0.3.3`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `github.com/juev/nebula-mesh 0.3.4`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":14,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":13.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}