CVE-2026-114616: Hmac Key Validator Missing Empty Checkcve-2026-114616-hmac-key-validator-missing-empty-check
Key-material validator $CHECK_KEY() rejects malformed key formats (key material containing unsafe PEM/SSH markers) but never rejects empty key material. HMAC with a zero-length key is deterministic and publicly computable, so a secret that resolves to "" or b"" (missing/unset configuration, a JWK {"kty":"oct","k":""}, or a key callable returning "") lets an