CVE-2026-44310

MEDIUM

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-129 CWE-390
Status published
Products (2)
sigstore/gitsign 0.4.0 - 0.15.0Go
sigstore/gitsign >= 0.4.0, < 0.15.0
Published May 15, 2026
Tracked Since May 15, 2026