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CVE-2025-25204: `gh attestation verify` returns incorrect exit code during verification if no attestations are present

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-390

Description

`gh` is GitHub’s official command line tool. Starting in version 2.49.0 and prior to version 2.67.0, under certain conditions, a bug in GitHub's Artifact Attestation cli tool `gh attestation verify` causes it to return a zero exit status when no attestations are present. This behavior is incorrect: When no attestations are present, `gh attestation verify` should return a non-zero exit status code, thereby signaling verification failure. An attacker can abuse this flaw to, for example, deploy malicious artifacts in any system that uses `gh attestation verify`'s exit codes to gatekeep deployments. Users are advised to update `gh` to patched version `v2.67.0` as soon as possible.

Affected products

• cli: from 2.49.0, < 2.67.0

References

• https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/10418
• https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10421
• https://github.com/cli/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-fgw4-v983-mgp8

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