GHSA-w6c6-c85g-mmv6

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Cosign's verify-blob-attestation reports false positive when payload parsing fails

view advisory published 2026-04-08Licence: CC-BY-4.0

## Description `cosign verify-blob-attestation` may erroneously report a "Verified OK" result for attestations with malformed payloads or mismatched predicate types. For old-format bundles and detached signatures, this was due to a logic flaw in the error handling of the predicate type validation. For new-format bundles, the predicate type validation was bypassed completely. ## Impact When `cosign verify-blob-attestation` is used without `--check-claims` set to `true`, an attestation that has a valid signature but a malformed or unparsable payload would be incorrectly validated. Additionally, systems relying on `--type <predicate type>` to reject attestations with mismatched types would be lead to trust the unexpected attestation type. ## Patches v3.0.6, v2.6.3 ## Workarounds Always set `--check-claims=true` for attestation verification.

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