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[GHSA] GHSA-298f-872v-2rcx (low) — ORAS CLI: Cyclic Referrer Graph Can Cause Unbounded Recursion and Resource Consumption

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-28

GHSA-298f-872v-2rcx Severity: low CVE: CVE-2026-55588

ORAS CLI: Cyclic Referrer Graph Can Cause Unbounded Recursion and Resource Consumption

### Summary

A malicious OCI registry can return a **cyclic referrer graph** (e.g. `A -> A` or `A -> B -> A`). The ORAS CLI's recursive referrer traversal does not track visited descriptors, so a cycle causes unbounded recursion and memory growth — a client

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-298f-872v-2rcx