CVE-2026-23831 (GCVE-0-2026-23831)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-22 21:26 – Updated: 2026-01-23 14:32
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Title
Rekor COSE v0.0.1 Canonicalize crashes when passed empty Message
Summary
Rekor is a software supply chain transparency log. In versions 1.4.3 and below, the entry implementation can panic on attacker-controlled input when canonicalizing a proposed entry with an empty spec.message, causing nil Pointer Dereference. Function validate() returns nil (success) when message is empty, leaving sign1Msg uninitialized, and Canonicalize() later dereferences v.sign1Msg.Payload. A malformed proposed entry of the cose/v0.0.1 type can cause a panic on a thread within the Rekor process. The thread is recovered so the client receives a 500 error message and service still continues, so the availability impact of this is minimal. This issue has been fixed in version 1.5.0.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
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sigstore rekor Affected: < 1.5.0
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