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Critical

CVE-2025-44005

An attacker can bypass authorization checks and force a Step CA ACME or SCEP provisioner to create certificates without completing certain protocol authorization checks.

VectorNETWORK

PublishedDec 17, 2025, 16:16

Published Bytalos-cna@cisco.com

Base Score

Score10

Affected Versions

Package (Ecosystem)IntroducedFixedLimit

github.com/smallstep/certificates(Go)00.29.0N/A

References

https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/security/advisories/GHSA-h8cp-697h-8c8p
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2242
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2242

Weakness Type

CWE-287

CVSS Metrics

Base Score

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Base SeverityCritical

Version

3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

NETWORK