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CVE-2025-25204 Moderate

`gh attestation verify` returns incorrect exit code during verification if no attestations are present

`gh` is GitHub’s official command line tool. Starting in version 2.49.0 and prior to version 2.67.0, under certain conditions, a bug in GitHub's Artifact Attestation cli tool `gh attestation verify` causes it to return a zero exit status when no attestations are present. This behavior is incorrect: When no attestations are present, `gh attestation verify` should return a non-zero exit status code, thereby signaling verification failure. An attacker can abuse this flaw to, for example, deploy malicious artifacts in any system that uses `gh attestation verify`'s exit codes to gatekeep deployments. Users are advised to update `gh` to patched version `v2.67.0` as soon as possible.

Exploit probability 0.4%
Published February 14, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change August 12, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

24 explicit affected versions

Go github.com/cli/cli
Go github.com/cli/cli/v2
Go github.com/cli/cli/v2

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-fgw4-v983-mgp8

### Summary A bug in GitHub's Artifact Attestation CLI tool, `gh attestation verify`, may return an incorrect zero exit status when no matching attestations are found for the specified `--predicate-type <value>` or the default `https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1` if not specified. This issue only arises if an artifact has an attestation with a predicate type different from the one provided in the command. As a result, users relying solely on these exit codes may mistakenly believe the attestation has been verified, despite the absence of an attestation with the specified predicate type and the tool printing a verification failure. Users are advised to update `gh` to version `v2.67.0` as soon as possible. Initial report: https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/10418 Fix: https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10421 ### Details The gh attestation verify command fetches, loads, and attempts to verify attestations associated with a given artifact for a specified predicate type. If an attestation is found, but the predicate type does not match the one specified in the `gh attestation verify` command, the verification fails, but the program exits early. Due to a re-used uninitialized error variable, when no matching attestations are found, the relevant function returns `nil` instead of an error, causing the program to exit with a status code of `0`, which incorrectly suggests successful verification. ### PoC Run `gh attestation verify` with local attestations using the `--bundle` flag and specify a predicate type with `--predicate-type` that you know will not match any of the attestations the command will attempt to verify. Confirm that the command exits with a zero status code. ### Impact Users who rely exclusively on the exit status code of `gh attestation verify` may incorrectly verify an attestation when the attestation's predicate type does not match the specified predicate type in the command.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2025-3467

`gh attestation verify` returns incorrect exit code during verification if no attestations are present in github.com/cli/cli

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-25204

`gh` is GitHub’s official command line tool. Starting in version 2.49.0 and prior to version 2.67.0, under certain conditions, a bug in GitHub's Artifact Attestation cli tool `gh attestation verify` causes it to return a zero exit status when no attestations are present. This behavior is incorrect: When no attestations are present, `gh attestation verify` should return a non-zero exit status code, thereby signaling verification failure. An attacker can abuse this flaw to, for example, deploy malicious artifacts in any system that uses `gh attestation verify`'s exit codes to gatekeep deployments. Users are advised to update `gh` to patched version `v2.67.0` as soon as possible.

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