# CVE-2026-22772: Fulcio vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via MetaIssuer Regex Bypass

- Also known as: GO-2026-4311, GHSA-59JP-PJ84-45MR
- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.5
- Published: 2026-01-12 · Updated: 2026-01-12

## Affected

- sigstore fulcio: fixed in 1.8.5
- github.com/sigstore/fulcio (Go): fixed in 1.8.5

## Description

Fulcio is a certificate authority for issuing code signing certificates for an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity. Prior to 1.8.5, 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sigstore fulcio, github.com/sigstore/fulcio, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.5) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/sigstore/fulcio/security/advisories/GHSA-59jp-pj84-45mr
- https://github.com/sigstore/fulcio/commit/eaae2f2be56df9dea5f9b439ec81bedae4c0978d

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