Edgeless Systems Contrast up to 1.24.0 Coordinator Peer Recovery certificate validation

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A vulnerability was found in Edgeless Systems Contrast up to 1.24.0. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Coordinator Peer Recovery. Executing a manipulation can lead to certificate validation. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-109359. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Edgeless Systems Contrast up to 1.24.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Coordinator Peer Recovery. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Contrast 1.8.0 before 1.24.1 contains an improper verification vulnerability in Coordinator peer recovery that fails to confirm the serving peer uses the same manifest generation. Attackers with write access to manifest history can replay a superseded history head so withdrawn workloads obtain trusted mesh certificates, or with the secret seed disclose the Mesh CA key.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-109359 since 10/12/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.

Upgrading to version 1.24.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Edgeless Systems

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• Contrast

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24.0

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