Medium severity · published Jan 23, 2026
CVE-2026-24137
sigstore legacy TUF client allows for arbitrary file writes with target cache path traversal
5.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
sigstore framework is a common go library shared across sigstore services and clients. In versions 1.10.3 and below, the legacy TUF client (pkg/tuf/client.go) supports caching target files to disk. It constructs a filesystem path by joining a cache base directory with a target name sourced from signed target metadata; however, it does not validate that the resulting path stays within the cache base directory. A malicious TUF repository can trigger arbitrary file overwriting, limited to the permissions that the calling process has. Note that this should only affect clients that are directly using the TUF client in sigstore/sigstore or are using an older version of Cosign. Public Sigstore deployment users are unaffected, as TUF metadata is validated by a quorum of trusted collaborators. This issue has been fixed in version 1.10.4. As a workaround, users can disable disk caching for the legacy client by setting SIGSTORE_NO_CACHE=true in the environment, migrate to https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go/tree/main/pkg/tuf, or upgrade to the latest sigstore/sigstore release.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SI
sigstore · sigstore
< 1.10.4 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24137
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24137
github.com
https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore/commit/8ec410a2993ea78083aecf0e473a85453039496e
github.com
https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore/releases/tag/v1.10.4
github.com
https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore/security/advisories/GHSA-fcv2-xgw5-pqxf
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