VDB
CVE-2025-44005
CVE-2025-44005
PUBLISHED
CVSS 10 CRITICAL
Step CA Has Authorization Bypass in ACME and SCEP Provisioners
EPSS 0.03% · 8.7th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.03%
8.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| github.com | smallstep/certificates | 0 |
| smallstep | Step-CA | 0.28.4, v0.28.3 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-44005 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-44005 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-44005 (circl-sighting)
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2242 (circl)
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2242 (circl)
- https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/security/advisories/GHSA-h8cp-697h-8c8p (circl)
Timeline
- Dec 3, 2025 CVE Published
- Dec 6, 2025 PoC Published
- Dec 17, 2025 PoC Published
- Dec 17, 2025 PoC Published
- Dec 18, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 22, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 26, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 30, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jan 3, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 10, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 14, 2026 EPSS Score
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2242 url
- https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/security/advisories/GHSA-h8cp-697h-8c8p url
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2242 url
- https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/commit/1011f5f5408b470a636f583bf74c0d7bbaf75d72 url
- https://github.com/smallstep/certificates package