Warp-Tech Warpgate up to 0.27.5 Known Hosts Trust manager.rs certificate validation

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Warp-Tech Warpgate up to 0.27.5. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file warpgate-web-ssh/src/manager.rs of the component Known Hosts Trust. Performing a manipulation results in certificate validation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-91166. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Warp-Tech Warpgate up to 0.27.5. This affects some unknown processing of the file warpgate-web-ssh/src/manager.rs of the component Known Hosts Trust. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Warpgate is an open source SSH, HTTPS and MySQL bastion host for Linux. From 0.25.0 until 0.27.6, the browser SSH path in warpgate-web-ssh/src/manager.rs handles RCEvent::HostKeyUnknown without the presenting hop identity and instead passes ssh_options.host and ssh_options.port for the final target to KnownHosts::trust. In Prompt and AutoAccept modes, a jump host key can therefore be stored for the target address. A machine later presenting the jump host key at the target address can be accepted as the target, allowing interception of user traffic and a newly issued certificate when certificate authentication is used. The native SSH path is unaffected because it tracks each hop separately. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.6.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-91166 since 09/14/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1587.003 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.27.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Warp-Tech

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• Warpgate

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• 0.27.0
• 0.27.1
• 0.27.2
• 0.27.3
• 0.27.4
• 0.27.5

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• Product: https://github.com/warp-tech/warpgate/

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