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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0565

NIXPKGS-2026-0565
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Permalink CVE-2026-29049
4.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): REQUIRED
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): LOW
updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago by @mweinelt Activity log
  • Created suggestion
  • @mweinelt ignored
    6 packages
    • ocamlPackages.melange
    • ocamlPackages.melange-json
    • ocamlPackages_latest.melange
    • ocamlPackages.melange-json-native
    • ocamlPackages_latest.melange-json
    • ocamlPackages_latest.melange-json-native
  • @mweinelt accepted
  • @mweinelt published on GitHub
melange: unbounded HTTP download in `melange update-cache` can exhaust disk in CI

melange allows users to build apk packages using declarative pipelines. In version 0.40.5 and prior, melange update-cache downloads URIs from build configs via io.Copy without any size limit or HTTP client timeout (pkg/renovate/cache/cache.go). An attacker-controlled URI in a melange config can cause unbounded disk writes, exhausting disk on the build runne. There is no known patch publicly available.

Affected products

melange
  • ==<= 0.40.5

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Ignored packages (6)

Package maintainers

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