CVE-2026-39984CWE-295

Sigstore Timestamp Authority has Improper Certificate Validation in verifier

Medium · published April 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00109 · 1.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation
Published
2026-04-14T23:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 APR 23:41Z
    Sigstore Timestamp Authority has Improper Certificate Validation in verifier
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