CVE-2025-66564: Sigstore Timestamp Authority allocates excessive memory during request parsing

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2025-12-04 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-405

Description

Sigstore Timestamp Authority is a service for issuing RFC 3161 timestamps. Prior to 2.0.3, Function api.ParseJSONRequest currently splits (via a call to strings.Split) an optionally-provided OID (which is untrusted data) on periods. Similarly, function api.getContentType splits the Content-Type header (which is also untrusted data) on an application string. As a result, in the face of a malicious request with either an excessively long OID in the payload containing many period characters or a malformed Content-Type header, a call to api.ParseJSONRequest or api.getContentType incurs allocations of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.3.

Affected products

sigstore timestamp-authority: before 2.0.3 — fixed in 2.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: sigstore timestamp-authority 2.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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