GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-pmwq-pjrm-6p5r in-toto-golang and in-toto-python have inconsistent negation behavior
MEDIUM
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- 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