# CVE-2022-35930: Ability to bypass attestation verification in sigstore PolicyController

- Also known as: GO-2022-0759, GHSA-739F-HW6H-7WQ8
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.2.1
- Published: 2022-08-04 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- sigstore policy-controller: fixed in 0.2.1
- github.com/sigstore/policy-controller (Go): fixed in 0.2.1

## Description

PolicyController is a utility used to enforce supply chain policy in Kubernetes clusters. In versions prior to 0.2.1 PolicyController will report a false positive, resulting in an admission when it should not be admitted when there is at least one attestation with a valid signature and there are NO attestations of the type being verified (--type defaults to "custom"). An example image that can be used to test this is `ghcr.io/distroless/static@sha256:dd7614b5a12bc4d617b223c588b4e0c833402b8f4991fb5702ea83afad1986e2`. Users should upgrade to version 0.2.1 to resolve this issue. There are no workarounds for users unable to upgrade.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sigstore policy-controller, github.com/sigstore/policy-controller, upgrade to a fixed version (0.2.1) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/sigstore/policy-controller/security/advisories/GHSA-739f-hw6h-7wq8
- https://github.com/sigstore/policy-controller/commit/e852af36fb7d42678b21d7e97503c25bd1fd05c8
- https://github.com/sigstore/policy-controller/releases/tag/v0.2.1

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