CVE-2026-64655GitHub CLI: Attestation Verification Bypass via Unescaped Regex Metacharacters in SAN Matching

Official description

GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub’s official command line tool. Prior to 2.97.0, gh attestation verify  builds the certificate Subject Alternative Name matcher from the --signer-repo and --signer-workflow  flag values without escaping regex metacharacters, so a user-supplied repository or workflow name is treated as a regular expression rather than a literal string. Because GitHub permits characters such as  `.`  in organization, repository, and workflow path names and  `.`  is a regex wildcard, an attacker can register a lookalike name (for example github/artifact.attestations-workflows) that satisfies a matcher intended for a different trusted signer (github/artifact-attestations-workflows), bypassing the intended Sigstore attestation verification. Exploitation requires the attacker to create a plausible lookalike repository and produce valid attestations from it, which could undermine supply chain verification for CI/CD pipelines or policy gates that pin trust to a specific signing workflow. This issue is fixed in version 2.97.0.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Affected products (as reported)

References

• https://github.com/cli/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-mm27-mwq9-fr5g x_refsource_CONFIRM
• https://github.com/cli/cli/commit/55dbb4dc6b7edb10b48e3d7fc5bccd32318d1b55 x_refsource_MISC
• https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.97.0 x_refsource_MISC