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CVE-2025-54059: melange's world-writable permissions expose SBOM files to potential image tampering

July 18, 2025

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).

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-5662-cv6m-63wh
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/commit/1b272db2a0bb3441553284cc56d87236b4b64c04
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/commit/e29494b4a40a91619ec1c87a09003c6d5164cea1
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/pull/1836
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/pull/2086
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/releases/tag/v0.29.5
  • github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/security/advisories/GHSA-5662-cv6m-63wh
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54059

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.23.0 before 0.29.5

Fixed versions

  • 0.29.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.29.5 or above.

Impact 4.4 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

Source file

go/chainguard.dev/melange/CVE-2025-54059.yml

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