NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cloudbeat-fips-9.0 package, versions <9.0.8-r37


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-CLOUDBEATFIPS90-17939564
  • published10 Jul 2026
  • disclosed22 Jan 2026

Introduced: 22 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-23831  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard cloudbeat-fips-9.0 to version 9.0.8-r37 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cloudbeat-fips-9.0 package and not the cloudbeat-fips-9.0 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Rekor is a software supply chain transparency log. In versions 1.4.3 and below, the entry implementation can panic on attacker-controlled input when canonicalizing a proposed entry with an empty spec.message, causing nil Pointer Dereference. Function validate() returns nil (success) when message is empty, leaving sign1Msg uninitialized, and Canonicalize() later dereferences v.sign1Msg.Payload. A malformed proposed entry of the cose/v0.0.1 type can cause a panic on a thread within the Rekor process. The thread is recovered so the client receives a 500 error message and service still continues, so the availability impact of this is minimal. This issue has been fixed in version 1.5.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1