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CVSS 8.7 HIGH Vulnerability

CVE-2026-49478: Fulcio has OIDC Discovery Redirect Following Allows SSRF and JWKS Substitution for Meta-I…

Impact Three security vulnerabilities were identified in the OIDC Discovery client: 1. Blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Cross-Host Redirects: Fulcio uses an HTTP client to fetch OIDC discovery metadata (/.we…

8.7CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-49478
Vendorgo
Affected Productgithub.com/sigstore/fulcio
Vulnerability TypeVulnerability
CVSS Score8.7 (HIGH)
Actively Exploited❌ No known exploitation
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories)

🔬 Technical Analysis

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Impact Three security vulnerabilities were identified in the OIDC Discovery client: 1. Blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Cross-Host Redirects: Fulcio uses an HTTP client to fetch OIDC discovery metadata (/.well-known/openid-configuration). Prior to this fix, if a configured issuer returned an HTTP redirect to a different host, the client followed it by default. This allowed a compromised or malicious issuer to redirect Fulcio's discovery requests to internal-only systems, resulting in blind SSRF. 2. JWKS Substitution and Cache Poisoning: Because cross-host redirects were permitted during OIDC discovery, an attacker could manipulate the discovery flow to return a malicious jwks_uri pointing to an attacker-controlled host. When Fulcio successfully initialized the pr

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