#VU119999 Resource exhaustion in Fulcio - CVE-2025-66506

 

#VU119999 Resource exhaustion in Fulcio - CVE-2025-66506

Published: December 16, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU119999
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-66506
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Fulcio
Software vendor:
Sigstore

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the identity.extractIssuerURL() function when parsing untrusted arguments. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted request with a malicious OIDC identity token to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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