# CVE-2025-66506: Fulcio allocates excessive memory during token parsing

- Also known as: GHSA-F83F-XPX7-FFPW, GO-2025-4193
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.3
- Published: 2025-12-04 · Updated: 2025-12-05

## Affected

- sigstore fulcio: fixed in 1.8.3
- github.com/sigstore/fulcio (Go): fixed in 1.8.3

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sigstore fulcio, github.com/sigstore/fulcio, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/sigstore/fulcio/security/advisories/GHSA-f83f-xpx7-ffpw
- https://github.com/sigstore/fulcio/commit/765a0e57608b9ef390e1eeeea8595b9054c63a5a

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