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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-25122 EUVD-2026-5379GHSA-6p9p-q6wh-9j89GO-2026-4406

apko is vulnerable to unbounded resource consumption in expandapk.Split on attacker-controlled .apk streams

Published Feb 4, 2026 · Updated Feb 4, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

apko allows users to build and publish OCI container images built from apk packages. From version 0.14.8 to before 1.1.0, expandapk.Split drains the first gzip stream of an APK archive via io.Copy(io.Discard, gzi) without explicit bounds. With an attacker-controlled input stream, this can force large gzip inflation work and lead to resource exhaustion (availability impact). The Split function reads the first tar header, then drains the remainder of the gzip stream by reading from the gzip reader directly without any maximum uncompressed byte limit or inflate-ratio cap. A caller that parses attacker-controlled APK streams may be forced to spend excessive CPU time inflating gzip data, leading to timeouts or process slowdown. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
chainguard-dev apko >= 0.14.8, < 1.1.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260205T172317-150000.1.146.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0403-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling dagdotdev 0.0.20-r6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go chainguard.dev/apko >= 0.14.8, < 1.1.0 1.1.0 GHSA-6p9p-q6wh-9j89

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