GHSA-crm4-q7v4-c2r2

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-crm4-q7v4-c2r2
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-crm4-q7v4-c2r2/GHSA-crm4-q7v4-c2r2.json
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Aliases
Published
2026-06-22T18:34:17Z
Modified
2026-09-21T22:30:13Z
Severity
  • 9.0 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 9.0 (Critical) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P/S:N/AU:Y/R:I/V:D/RE:L/U:Red CVSS Calculator
Summary
Canonical ADSys Uses a Less Trusted Source
Details

An issue was discovered in Canonical ADSys upstream versions through v0.16.2. During Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) certificate auto-enrollment via the vendored Samba client script (internal/policies/certificate/python/vendor_samba/gp/gp_cert_auto_enroll_ext.py), ADSys utilizes a plaintext HTTP connection (http://) instead of a secure HTTPS connection (https://) to request the CA certificate from the Active Directory Certificate Services server (GetCACert). An unauthenticated network attacker positioned between the managed Ubuntu host and the configured AD CS CA hostname can conduct a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack. By intercepting the plaintext HTTP request, the attacker can supply an arbitrary, attacker-controlled Root CA certificate. Because the system automatically accepts this certificate and registers it into the local system trust store via update-ca-certificates, this results in system-wide trust store poisoning. Consequently, TLS clients utilizing the operating system trust store on the affected machine will accept rogue certificates for arbitrary domains, enabling persistent decryption and interception of subsequent TLS connections. This issue is resolved in version v0.16.3.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-348"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-09-21T22:27:09Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2026-06-22T18:16:31Z",
    "severity":  "CRITICAL"
}
References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/ubuntu/adsys

Package

Name
github.com/ubuntu/adsys
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Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/ubuntu/adsys

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.16.3-0.20250318112551-8b1939f96d38

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-crm4-q7v4-c2r2/GHSA-crm4-q7v4-c2r2.json"