GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf nebula-mesh's stores enrollment tokens unhashed in SQLite

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Attackers with local database access can steal unhashed enrollment tokens to hijack agent identities, requiring a patch to hash tokens at rest.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf?

GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf is a vulnerability in github.com/juev/nebula-mesh, published on 22 Jun 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

internal/store/sqlite.go:1177,1192,1221,1245 — the enrollment_tokens.token column holds the raw UUID token. ConsumeToken does WHERE token = ? against the raw string. Compare with operator_api_keys.key_hash, which is SHA-256 hex (constructed in internal/api/middleware.go:51-53).

Affected

All released versions up to v0.3.0.

Threat model

Read access to nebula-mgmt.db: backup, snapshot, file-system access, future SQL-injection sink. The principle of defense-in-depth: API keys are hashed at rest; enrollment tokens — which grant the same lifecycle authority over a host's identity — are not.

An attacker who reads the DB before a legitimate agent enrolls can consume the single-use token first, mint a cert against their own keypair, and take the agent's intended Nebula identity.

Suggested fix

  1. Schema migration: rename enrollment_tokens.token → token_hash (or add the new column and drop the old after backfill of pending rows).
  2. Store SHA-256 of token on create:
    sum := sha256.Sum256([]byte(token))
    row.TokenHash = hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
    
  3. ConsumeToken accepts the raw token, hashes once, looks up by hash, atomically marks consumed.

Side bonus: take this opportunity to switch the token format from uuid.New().String() (122 bits) to hex.EncodeToString(crypto/rand 32 bytes) (256 bits), matching the project's session-token and API-key conventions. UUIDs are recognisable in logs and crash dumps; opaque hex blends in.

TOTP recovery codes appear to already be SHA-256 hashed at rest (internal/web/totp.go:74-78) — confirming that pattern is intentional elsewhere, just missed here.

Which versions are affected by GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/juev/nebula-mesh.

PackageAffectedFixed in
github.com/juev/nebula-mesh GoAll versions0.3.2
github.com/juev/nebula-mesh GoAll versions0.3.2
github.com/juev/nebula-mesh GoAll versions0.3.2

How do I fix GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf?

Upgrade github.com/juev/nebula-mesh to 0.3.2 or later.

Is GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of GHSA-ghmh-jhmj-wcmf in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GO-2026-5399.

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