Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-32694

Access Control in Canonical Juju 3.0.0 – 3.6.19

Public PoCAccess Control
Published
18 March 2026
Modified
19 March 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.6
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0027 19th percentile
Risk Priority 45 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-32694 is a medium-severity Predictable Value Range from Previous Values (CWE-343) vulnerability in Canonical Juju. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application Access Token (T1550.001); ranked at the 19th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-16 (Security and Privacy Attributes) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

In Juju from version 3.0.0 through 3.6.18, when a secret owner grants permissions to a secret to a grantee, the secret owner relies exclusively on a predictable XID of the secret to verify ownership. This allows a malicious grantee which…

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can request secrets to predict past secrets granted by the same secret owner to different grantees, allowing them to use the resources granted by those past secrets. Successful exploitation relies on a very specific configuration, specific data semantic, and the administrator having the need to deploy at least two different applications, one of them controlled by the attacker.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1550.001 Application Access Token Lateral Movement
Adversaries may use stolen application access tokens to bypass the typical authentication process and access restricted accounts, information, or services on remote systems.
Why these techniques?

Authorization bypass via predictable secret XIDs directly enables unauthorized use of application access tokens/grants issued to other parties.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-0928Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2026-32691Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2026-32692Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2025-53513Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2026-32693Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2025-68153Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2023-0092Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2024-8037Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2026-5774Same product: Canonical Juju
CVE-2025-53512Same product: Canonical Juju

Affected Assets

canonical
juju
3.0.0 — 3.6.19

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-16 Security and Privacy Attributes
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 2 hardening rules · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V6.4.1
  • V10.1.2
  • V6.5.2
  • V6.5.3

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly enforces correct ownership verification and authorization decisions for secrets instead of trusting a predictable XID supplied by the requester.

prevent

Limits the permissions that can be granted on any secret, reducing the impact of an attacker who successfully predicts and re-uses another grantee's XID.

prevent

Requires binding of explicit security attributes (owner, grantee, purpose) to each secret so that authorization is not derived solely from a guessable identifier.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 full match
prevents

Enforcing authorization policy and least privilege directly blocks user-controlled key tampering that bypasses access checks.

PR.IR-01 mostly match
prevents

Logical access controls prevent unauthorized data access that results from missing authorization checks on object references.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices require use of cryptographically secure RNGs instead of predictable generators.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing can detect and reject predictable random-value generators.

prevents

Information access restriction explicitly enforces that users may only retrieve data they are authorized to see, directly addressing user-controlled key bypass.

prevents

Access control policy directly requires enforcement of authorization rules that prevent unauthorized access via manipulated keys.

prevents

Managing access rights includes ensuring users can only access their own records and not bypass authorization by altering identifiers.

mitigates

Privileged access rights control restricts what data each user may access, mitigating direct object reference attacks.

prevents

Cryptographic controls require use of approved, unpredictable RNGs, directly mitigating predictable value sequences.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that reduce the attack surface for weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Derived transitively via CVE→CWE→STIG over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only).

Oracle Linux 8 (1 rule)
  • V-248563 The OL 8 SSH server must be configured to use strong entropy. via CWE-343

References