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.
https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/security/advisories/GHSA-q4r8-xm5f-56gw
https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/releases/tag/v0.30.0-rc7
https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/commit/e6da031d5125cfd99fe9a26f74bb41e4dacca4ef
Published: 2026-03-19
Updated: 2026-04-27
Named Vulnerability: GO-2026-4775Named Vulnerability: GHSA-q4r8-xm5f-56gw
Base Score: 9.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Severity: High
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity: Critical
EPSS: 0.00308