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Medium · 4.9 CVE-2026-44544 EUVD-2026-30348GHSA-vxvc-cg7j-rwqjGO-2026-5683

gittuf: Policy can be rolled back to prior valid version

Published May 14, 2026 · Updated May 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

gittuf is a platform-agnostic Git security system. Prior to 0.14.0, an attacker with push access to gittuf's Reference State Log (RSL) can roll back the current policy to any previous policy trusted by the current set of root keys. gittuf determines the policy to load by inspecting the RSL. Except for the very first policy (which is automatically trusted given gittuf's TOFU model, or verified against manually specified keys), whenever an RSL entry that points to a new policy is encountered, gittuf validates that this policy is trusted. This is done by checking that the new policy’s root metadata is signed by the required threshold of the current policy's root keys. Because of this, an attacker with push access to the RSL may create a new entry that references an old policy (that is trusted by the most recent policy's set of root keys), thereby rolling back gittuf's policy to the attacker's chosen state. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gittuf gittuf < 0.14.0 —

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
Debian 14 gittuf 0.14.1-1 —
Debian 13 gittuf No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 gittuf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 gittuf No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS gittuf No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/gittuf/gittuf < 0.14.0 0.14.0 GHSA-vxvc-cg7j-rwqj

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