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Rekor affected by Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via provided public key URL

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 22, 2026 in sigstore/rekor • Updated Jan 22, 2026

Package

gomod github.com/sigstore/rekor (Go)

Affected versions

<= 1.4.3

Patched versions

1.5.0

Description

Summary

/api/v1/index/retrieve supports retrieving a public key via a user-provided URL, allowing attackers to trigger SSRF to arbitrary internal services.

Since the SSRF only can trigger GET requests, the request cannot mutate state. The response from the GET request is not returned to the caller so data exfiltration is not possible. A malicious actor could attempt to probe an internal network through Blind SSRF.

Impact

  • SSRF to cloud metadata (169.254.169.254)
  • SSRF to internal Kubernetes APIs
  • SSRF to any service accessible from Fulcio's network

Patches

Upgrade to v1.5.0. Note that this is a breaking change to the search API and fully disables lookups by URL. If you require this feature, please reach out and we can discuss alternatives.

Workarounds

Disable the search endpoint with --enable_retrieve_api=false.

References

@Hayden-IO Hayden-IO published to sigstore/rekor Jan 22, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 22, 2026
Reviewed Jan 22, 2026
Last updated Jan 22, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-24117

GHSA ID

GHSA-4c4x-jm2x-pf9j

Source code

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