# CVE-2026-49258: Nebula Mesh: Web UI lacks ownership checks, enabling cross-operator access to hosts and networks (read, block, delete)

- Also known as: GO-2026-5816, GHSA-C6V2-3FFM-VCMC
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.3.6
- Published: 2026-07-28 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- juev nebula-mesh: fixed in 0.3.6
- github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go): all versions
- github.com/juev/nebula-mesh (Go): through 0.3.4

## Description

Nebula Mesh is a self-hosted control plane for the Slack Nebula mesh VPN. In versions 0.3.5 and below, the web UI (/ui/*) does not apply the per-operator CA scoping employed by the JSON API. This was partially addressed by GHSA-598g-h2vc-h5vg, but the changes were not implemented in the web read/mutation surface. Any authenticated non-admin operator (for example, one created via self-registration or OIDC) can access resources belonging to other operators. The host create/edit/mobile-bundle/network-create paths and all CA-management routes were already correctly scoped. A malicious operator could block or delete any other operator's host, or read any operator's hosts and networks. This issue has been fixed in version 0.3.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on juev nebula-mesh, github.com/juev/nebula-mesh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.3.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/forgekeep/nebula-mesh/security/advisories/GHSA-c6v2-3ffm-vcmc
- https://github.com/forgekeep/nebula-mesh/pull/161

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