golang-github-smallstep-certificates — security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-30836",
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    "title": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-30836",
    "summary": "Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. Versions 0.30.0-rc6 and below do not safeguard against unauthenticated certificate issuance through the SCEP UpdateReq. This issue has been fixed in version 0.30.0.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-17T12:58:08.179141215Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2026-30836"
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      "references": [
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-30836",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-30836",
        "https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/commit/e6da031d5125cfd99fe9a26f74bb41e4dacca4ef",
        "https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/releases/tag/v0.30.0-rc7",
        "https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/security/advisories/GHSA-q4r8-xm5f-56gw"
      ]
    },
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      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-30836",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 358196,
  "published_at": "2026-03-19T21:17:00+00:00"
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