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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-42576 EUVD-2026-28934GHSA-m7hm-vm4x-28jfGO-2026-5497

apko `DiscoverKeys` has a panic on non-rsa jwks key that causes crash during key discovery

Published May 9, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

apko allows users to build and publish OCI container images built from apk packages. Prior to version 1.2.7, DiscoverKeys in pkg/apk/apk/implementation.go unconditionally type-asserts JWKS keys as *rsa.PublicKey without checking the key type. If a repository JWKS endpoint returns a non-RSA key (e.g. EC), the unchecked assertion panics and crashes apko. This affects any workflow that initializes the APK database and fetches repository keys. This issue has been patched in version 1.2.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
chainguard-dev apko < 1.2.7 —

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

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling dagdotdev 0.0.20-r14 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go chainguard.dev/apko < 1.2.7 1.2.7 GHSA-m7hm-vm4x-28jf

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