Description
A race condition in the secrets management subsystem of Juju versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to claim ownership of a newly initialized secret. Between generating a Juju Secret ID and creating the secret's first revision, an attacker authenticated as another unit agent can claim ownership of a known secret. This leads to the attacking unit being able to read the content of the initial secret revision.
Published: 2026-03-18
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Confidentiality Breach
Action: Patch
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-gfgr-6hrj-85ww Juju affected by timing ownership claim attack on new external back-end secrets
History

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:canonical:juju:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Canonical
Canonical juju
Vendors & Products Canonical
Canonical juju

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:45:00 +0000

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Description A race condition in the secrets management subsystem of Juju versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to claim ownership of a newly initialized secret. Between generating a Juju Secret ID and creating the secret's first revision, an attacker authenticated as another unit agent can claim ownership of a known secret. This leads to the attacking unit being able to read the content of the initial secret revision.
Title Timing ownership claim attack on new external back-end secrets
Weaknesses CWE-708
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-18T13:49:09.338Z

Reserved: 2026-03-13T12:53:34.544Z

Link: CVE-2026-32691

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-18T13:47:05.466Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-03-18T13:16:18.163

Modified: 2026-03-19T15:34:39.153

Link: CVE-2026-32691

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-03-24T10:58:49Z

Weaknesses