CVE-2026-29049 PUBLISHED

melange: unbounded HTTP download in `melange update-cache` can exhaust disk in CI

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 03.03.2026 Published: 06.03.2026 Updated: 06.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor chainguard-dev
Product melange
Versions
  • Version <= 0.40.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE
  • CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE