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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23831 (CVE-2026-23831)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-01-22 22:16 – Updated: 2026-07-02 16:11 – Source website

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-23831	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23831	REPORT
	https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/security/adviso…	REPORT
	https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/commit/39bae3d1…	REPORT
	https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/releases/tag/v1.5.0	REPORT

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            "binary_name": "golang-github-sigstore-rekor-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.3.9-1"
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10",
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          }
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23831",
  "modified": "2026-07-02T16:11:56Z",
  "published": "2026-01-22T22:16:00Z",
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23831"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
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  ]
}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-22 21:26 – Updated: 2026-01-23 14:32

Title

Rekor COSE v0.0.1 Canonicalize crashes when passed empty Message

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-23 14:32 UTC

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/security/adviso…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/commit/39bae3d1…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/releases/tag/v1.5.0	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
sigstore	rekor	Affected: < 1.5.0

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