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CVE-2026-44310GO-2026-5212GHSA-7C37-GX6W-8VC5

gitsign --verify panics on empty-certificate PKCS7 and exits 0, bypassing exit-code callers

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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.15.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Gitsign is a keyless Sigstore to signing tool for Git commits with your a GitHub / OIDC identity. From 0.4.0 to before 0.15.0, CertVerifier.Verify() in pkg/git/verifier.go unconditionally dereferences certs[0] after sd.GetCertificates() without checking the slice length. A CMS/PKCS7 signed message with an empty certificate set is a structurally valid DER payload; GetCertificates() returns an empty slice with no error, causing an immediate index-out-of-range panic. On the gitsign --verify code path (the GPG-compatible mode invoked by git verify-commit), the panic is silently recovered by internal/io/streams.go's Wrap() function, which returns nil instead of an error. main.go then exits with code 0, causing exit-code-only verification callers to interpret the failed verification as success. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.15.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • sigstore gitsign

    From 0.4.0 · fixed in 0.15.0

  • github.com/sigstore/gitsignGo

    From 0.4.0 · fixed in 0.15.0

References 1

GitHub · sigstore/gitsign