GHSA-4QG8-FJ49-PXJH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-05 18:19 – Updated: 2025-12-05 18:19
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Summary
Sigstore Timestamp Authority allocates excessive memory during request parsing
Details

Impact

Excessive memory allocation

Function api.ParseJSONRequest currently splits (via a call to strings.Split) an optionally-provided OID (which is untrusted data) on periods. Similarly, function api.getContentType splits the Content-Type header (which is also untrusted data) on an application string.

As a result, in the face of a malicious request with either an excessively long OID in the payload containing many period characters or a malformed Content-Type header, a call to api.ParseJSONRequest or api.getContentType incurs allocations of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument). Relevant weakness: CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

Patches

Upgrade to v2.0.3.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds with the service itself. If the service is behind a load balancer, configure the load balancer to reject excessively large requests.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 2.0.2"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.0.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-66564"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-405"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-12-05T18:19:00Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-12-04T23:15:47Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\n\n**Excessive memory allocation**\n\nFunction [api.ParseJSONRequest](https://github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority/blob/26d7d426d3000abdbdf2df34de56bb92246c0365/pkg/api/timestamp.go#L63) currently splits (via a call to [strings.Split](https://pkg.go.dev/strings#Split)) an optionally-provided OID (which is untrusted data) on periods. Similarly, function [api.getContentType](https://github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority/blob/26d7d426d3000abdbdf2df34de56bb92246c0365/pkg/api/timestamp.go#L114) splits the `Content-Type` header (which is also untrusted data) on an `application` string.\n\nAs a result, in the face of a malicious request with either an excessively long OID in the payload containing many period characters or a malformed `Content-Type` header, a call to `api.ParseJSONRequest` or `api.getContentType` incurs allocations of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function\u0027s argument). Relevant weakness: [CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/405.html)\n\n### Patches\n\nUpgrade to v2.0.3.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nThere are no workarounds with the service itself. If the service is behind a load balancer, configure the load balancer to reject excessively large requests.",
  "id": "GHSA-4qg8-fj49-pxjh",
  "modified": "2025-12-05T18:19:00Z",
  "published": "2025-12-05T18:19:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority/security/advisories/GHSA-4qg8-fj49-pxjh"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66564"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority/commit/0cae34e197d685a14904e0bad135b89d13b69421"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Sigstore Timestamp Authority allocates excessive memory during request parsing"
}



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