CVE-2026-40097CWE-129

Step CA affected by an index out of bounds panic in TPM attestation EKU validation

Low · published April 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
3.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. From 0.24.0 to before 0.30.0-rc3, an attacker can trigger an index out-of-bounds panic in Step CA by sending a crafted attestation key (AK) certificate with an empty Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension during TPM device attestation. When processing a device-attest-01 ACME challenge using TPM attestation, Step CA validates that the AK certificate contains the tcg-kp-AIKCertificate Extended Key Usage OID. During this validation, the EKU extension value is decoded from its ASN.1 representation and the first element is checked. A crafted certificate could include an EKU extension that decodes to an empty sequence, causing the code to panic when accessing the first element of the empty slice. This vulnerability is only reachable when a device-attest-01 ACME challenge with TPM attestation is configured. Deployments not using TPM device attestation are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.30.0-rc3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.7 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00284 · 19.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-129 · Improper Validation of Array Index
Published
2026-04-10T16:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 APR 16:34Z
    Step CA affected by an index out of bounds panic in TPM attestation EKU validation
    cvelistv5