GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-pmwq-pjrm-6p5r in-toto-golang and in-toto-python have inconsistent negation behavior

MEDIUM Published 2026-05-08 Modified 2026-05-08 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/in-toto/in-toto-golang
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-168
Reviewed
2026-05-08

Affected packages

• Go github.com/in-toto/in-toto-golang: < 0.11.0 → fixed in 0.11.0

Description

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-168 Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements weakness

References