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golang-github-sigstore-fulcio — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66506

Fulcio is a free-to-use certificate authority for issuing code signing certificates for an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity. Prior to 1.8.3, function identity.extractIssuerURL splits (via a call to strings.Split) its argument (which is untrusted data) on periods. As a result, in the face of a malicious request with an (invalid) OIDC identity token in the payload containing many period characters, a call to extractIssuerURL incurs allocations to the tune of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument), with a constant factor of about 16. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.3.

Products
golang-github-sigstore-fulcio
Affected versions
1.6.5-1, 1.7.1-1, 1.8.7-1, 1.8.8-1
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2025-66506
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 01:55 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66506

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Dec 2025, 22:15 UTC

Fulcio is a free-to-use certificate authority for issuing code signing certificates for an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity. Prior to 1.8.3, function identity.extractIssuerURL splits (via a call to strings.Split) its argument (which is untrusted data) on periods. As a result, in the face of a malicious request with an (invalid) OIDC identity token in the payload containing many period characters, a call to extractIssuerURL incurs allocations to the tune of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument), with a constant factor of about 16. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.3.

osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66506

golang-github-sigstore-fulcio

Fixed versions: Not specified

golang-github-sigstore-fulcio

Fixed versions: Not specified

golang-github-sigstore-fulcio

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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