CVE-2026-47724: nebula-mesh: API endpoints lack ownership checks, enabling cross-operator privilege escalation
The /api/v1/* route surface trusts the bearer token alone for authorisation on most endpoints. The codebase itself admits this at internal/api/hosts.go:384: “API trusts the bearer token for authorisation; per-CA ownership is enforced only in the Web layer.”
The Web UI gates state-changing routes through loadAccessibleCA (internal/web/cas.go); CA-management endpoints in internal/api/cas.go ALSO have proper canAccessCA gates. The gap is on the host, network, firewall, mobile-bundle, and most operator endpoints. Combined with the per-operator CA model from ADR 0002, this gives any non-admin operator API key broad cross-tenant access — instant privilege escalation in the worst case.
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