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GHSA-9vp8-3hmv-8fgh

stigmem-node's federation peer registration lacked explicit out-of-band approval

Details

### Impact Federation peer registration accepted peer key material during registration without a separate administrator approval step based on an out-of-band fingerprint check. Impacted deployments are nodes that accept federation peer registration across a network where initial registration could be intercepted or misdirected.

### Patches Patched in 0.9.0a2. Peer registration now uses a pending approval flow, and peer tokens are not accepted until an administrator approves the peer using the expected fingerprint.

### Workarounds Before upgrading, restrict peer registration endpoints to trusted administrative networks and verify peer public-key fingerprints out of band before allowing federation traffic.

### Upgrade Upgrade to the patched release:

```bash pip install --upgrade --pre stigmem-node ```

If developers install through the Stigmem meta-package instead, they should use the matching extra for deployments, for example:

```bash pip install --upgrade --pre 'stigmem[node]' ```

### Resources - Release: https://github.com/eidetic-labs/stigmem/releases/tag/v0.9.0a2 - Changelog: https://github.com/eidetic-labs/stigmem/blob/v0.9.0a2/CHANGELOG.md#L14-L35 - Security policy and posture: https://github.com/eidetic-labs/stigmem/blob/v0.9.0a2/SECURITY.md

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Affected packages

PyPI / stigmem-node
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 0.9.0a2
Fix pip install --upgrade 'stigmem-node>=0.9.0a2'

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