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.
Published: 2026-05-14
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vxvc-cg7j-rwqj gittuf's policy can be rolled back to prior valid versions
History

Fri, 15 May 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 15 May 2026 11:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Gittuf
Gittuf gittuf
Vendors & Products Gittuf
Gittuf gittuf

Thu, 14 May 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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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.
Title gittuf: Policy can be rolled back to prior valid version
Weaknesses CWE-639
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-15T18:05:22.406Z

Reserved: 2026-05-06T19:38:10.568Z

Link: CVE-2026-44544

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-15T16:44:14.864Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-14T18:16:50.297

Modified: 2026-05-14T18:27:25.110

Link: CVE-2026-44544

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-15T11:21:08Z

Weaknesses