High

stigmem-node: RTBF tombstones are mis-attributed and suppress reads tenant-blind (cross-tenant BOLA)

  • Disclosed: 19.06.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 14:19

Summary

On a multi-tenant stigmem node, RTBF (right-to-be-forgotten) tombstones were mis-scoped two ways. (1) issue_tombstone defaulted the tenant to "default" instead of the caller's tenant, so tombstones could be written to the wrong tenant. (2) The read-suppression path — _get_tombstone_filter (routes/facts/common.py) and the _tombstone_scope_cache (lifecycle/tombstones.py) — had no tenant_id predicate, so tombstone suppression was applied tenant-blind across fact queries and provenance. Reached via /v1/tombstones and the fact query/provenance read paths.

Impact

Cross-tenant integrity of the RTBF mechanism: a tenant's deletion request could be recorded against the wrong tenant, and tombstone suppression could hide — or fail to hide — facts across tenant boundaries, undermining both data-view correctness and RTBF guarantees.

Affected configurations

This is a cross-tenant break. It is exploitable only on deployments running the opt-in stigmem-plugin-multi-tenant (multiple tenants on one node). A default single-tenant node has only tenant="default" — there is no second tenant to cross — so it is not exploitable on default deployments. The rating is HIGH for the multi-tenant deployments the plugin exists to isolate.

Patches

Fixed in 0.9.0a12 (PR #728): identity.tenant_id is passed from issue_tombstone into create_tombstone (no more "default" fallback); AND tenant_id = ? was added to _get_tombstone_filter and get_tombstone_status; the suppression cache is re-keyed to include tenant; and all four read call sites thread the caller's tenant. A tenant-B tombstone now suppresses only tenant-B facts and is invisible to tenant-A reads.

Workarounds

None other than upgrading to 0.9.0a12. Single-tenant deployments are unaffected.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) stigmem-node < 0.9.0a12 0.9.0a12

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-639
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
stigmem-node
Disclosed
19.06.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 14:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-x26h-xmv8-gxf7 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: stigmem-node

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (10) in the archive
Total entries
10
First → latest
05.2026 08.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 3
  • High 6
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2026: 10
Severity:
  1. stigmem-node: RTBF tombstones are mis-attributed and suppress reads tenant-blind (cross-tenant BOLA) this entry
    High CVE-2026-76236 < 0.9.0a12 0.9.0a12

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