GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-5662-cv6m-63wh melange's world-writable permissions expose SBOM files to potential image tampering
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-54059
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- chainguard.dev/melange
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
- Reviewed
- 2025-07-18
Affected packages
• Go chainguard.dev/melange: >= 0.23.0, < 0.29.5 → fixed in 0.29.5
Description
It was discovered that the SBOM files generated by melange in apks had file system permissions mode 666:
```
$ apkrane ls https://packages.wolfi.dev/os/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz -P hello-wolfi --full --latest | xargs wget -q -O - | tar tzv 2>/dev/null var/lib/db/sbom
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-23 14:17 var/lib/db/sbom
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 3383 2025-06-23 14:17 var/lib/db/sbom/hello-wolfi-2.12.2-r1.spdx.json
```
This issue was introduced in commit 1b272db ("Persist workspace filesystem throughout package builds (#1836)") (v0.23.0).
Impact
This potentially allows an unprivileged user to tamper with apk SBOMs on a running image, potentially confusing security scanners. An attacker could also perform a DoS under special circumstances.
Patches
This issue was addressed in melange in e29494b ("fix: tighten up permissions for written SBOM files and signature tarballs (#2086)") (v0.29.5).
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Cody Harris H2O.ai and Markus Boehme for independently reporting this issue.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-54059 melange allows users to build apk packages using declarative pipelines. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/security/advisories/GHSA-5662-cv6m-63wh web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54059 advisory
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/pull/1836 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/pull/2086 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/commit/1b272db2a0bb3441553284cc56d87236b4b64c04 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/commit/e29494b4a40a91619ec1c87a09003c6d5164cea1 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange package
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/releases/tag/v0.29.5 web