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CVE-2026-44309: gitsign verify accepts signatures over go-git-normalized bytes, enabling trust confusion on malformed commits

May 8, 2026

gitsign verify and gitsign verify-tag re-encode commit/tag objects through go-git’s EncodeWithoutSignature before checking the signature, instead of verifying against the raw git object bytes. For malformed objects with duplicate tree headers, git-core and go-git parse different trees: git-core uses the first, go-git uses the second. A signature crafted over the go-git-normalized form (second tree) passes gitsign verify while git-core resolves the commit to a completely different tree. This breaks the invariant that a verified signature, the commit semantics git-core presents to users, and the object hash logged in Rekor all refer to the same content.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rmh-48mx-2vwc
  • github.com/sigstore/gitsign
  • github.com/sigstore/gitsign/security/advisories/GHSA-7rmh-48mx-2vwc
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44309

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.16.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.16.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.16.0 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation
  • CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Source file

go/github.com/sigstore/gitsign/CVE-2026-44309.yml

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