mediumCVSS 4.1Vulnerability

GHSA-pmwq-pjrm-6p5r

### Impact _What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?_ in-toto-golang and in-toto-python both support glob patterns in artifact rules to indicate the artifacts that a rule applies to. Both support negations in character classes to indicate what should *not* be matched, but they used different operators to indicate the negation. in-toto-python uses `!` while in-toto-golang used `^`. A layout authored with the expectations of one implementation can therefore exhibit different behavior in the other implementation. This impacts users in a specific set of circumstances where two different implementations are used to verify the same layout + attestation bundle at different stages of the same pipeline. As a rule of thumb, we advise using a single implementation across all aspects of a pipeline, from layout creation to pipeline execution and verification to prevent this class of bugs. ### Patches _Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?_ in-toto-golang has been updated to use `!` instead of `^` to indicate negation. See https://github.com/in-toto/in-toto-golang/pull/462. This is part of v0.11.0.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-pmwq-pjrm-6p5r
severity
medium
summary
in-toto-golang and in-toto-python have inconsistent negation behavior
cvss_score
4.1
cve_id
GHSA-pmwq-pjrm-6p5r
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-05-08T22:24:19Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pmwq-pjrm-6p5r
ghsa_updated
2026-05-08T22:24:19Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]go/github.com/in-toto/in-toto-golang

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]go/github.com/in-toto/in-toto-golang

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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