Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Sigstore/Fulcio package

2026

Fulcio has OIDC Discovery Redirect Following Allows SSRF and JWKS Substitution for Meta-Issuer Paths, with Kubernetes Service-Account Token Leakage

Three security vulnerabilities were identified in the OIDC Discovery client: Blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Cross-Host Redirects: Fulcio uses an HTTP client to fetch OIDC discovery metadata (/.well-known/openid-configuration). Prior to this fix, if a configured issuer returned an HTTP redirect to a different host, the client followed it by default. This allowed a compromised or malicious issuer to redirect Fulcio's discovery requests to internal-only systems, resulting in blind SSRF. …

Fulcio is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via MetaIssuer Regex Bypass

Fulcio's metaRegex() function uses unanchored regex, allowing attackers to bypass MetaIssuer URL validation and trigger SSRF to arbitrary internal services. Since the SSRF only can trigger GET requests, the request cannot mutate state. The response from the GET request is not returned to the caller so data exfiltration is not possible. A malicious actor could attempt to probe an internal network through Blind SSRF.

2025

Fulcio allocates excessive memory during token parsing

Function identity.extractIssuerURL currently 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. Relevant …