CVE-2026-39984

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39984
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-39984.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-39984
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-04-14T23:41:47.909Z
Modified
2026-04-16T22:29:49.362625149Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Sigstore Timestamp Authority has Improper Certificate Validation in verifier
Details

Sigstore Timestamp Authority is a service for issuing RFC 3161 timestamps. Versions 2.0.5 and below contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the VerifyTimestampResponse function. VerifyTimestampResponse correctly verifies the certificate chain signature, but the TSA-specific constraint checks in VerifyLeafCert uses the first non-CA certificate from the PKCS#7 certificate bag instead of the leaf certificate from the verified chain. An attacker can exploit this by prepending a forged certificate to the certificate bag while the message is signed with an authorized key, causing the library to validate the signature against one certificate but perform authorization checks against another. This vulnerability only affects users of the timestamp-authority/v2/pkg/verification package and does not affect the timestamp-authority service itself or sigstore-go. The issue has been fixed in version 2.0.6.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/39xxx/CVE-2026-39984.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-295"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.0.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.2
v0.1.3
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.0-rc.0
v1.0.0-rc.1
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v1.1.2
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.2.2
v1.2.3
v1.2.4
v1.2.5
v1.2.6
v1.2.7
v1.2.8
v1.2.9
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.2
v2.0.3
v2.0.4
v2.0.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-39984.json"