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    "id": "CVE-2026-84716",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84716",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-23T19:40:28.390Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-16T11:55:20.071Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z",
    "snapshot": {
      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "Automation-controller: automation-controller: instance install_bundle issues 10-year, non-revocable receptor mesh-ca certificates for caller-chosen (and case-variant impersonating) hostnames",
      "summary": "A flaw was found in the automation-controller instance\n                  install-bundle endpoint. When a System Administrator downloads\n                  an execution/hop node's install bundle, the controller signs an\n                  X.509 certificate with the receptor mesh certificate authority\n                  in which the Common Name, DNS subject-alternative-name, and\n                  receptor node-id are taken verbatim from the caller-chosen\n                  instance hostname, with a hard-coded ten-year validity, a random\n                  serial, and no issuance log or revocation list. Because the\n                  hostname charset validator is case-insensitive while the\n                  uniqueness validator is case-sensitive, an administrator can\n                  register a case variant of an existing control node's hostname\n                  and obtain a mesh-CA-signed certificate that TLS peers, which\n                  match hostnames case-insensitively, accept as that control node.\n                  In managed/hosted deployments — where the customer holds\n                  controller superuser but the platform operator runs the mesh —\n                  this yields a long-lived, non-revocable mesh peer credential and,\n                  with an on-path position, TLS impersonation or interception of\n                  control/hybrid mesh nodes. It does not grant direct remote code\n                  execution, because receptor work submission is gated by a\n                  separate signing key not included in the bundle.",
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