DoS in Quill via unbounded read of HTTP response body during notarization
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
Quill provides simple mac binary signing and notarization from any platform. Quill before version v0.7.1 has unbounded reads of HTTP response bodies during the Apple notarization process. Exploitation requires the ability to modify API responses from Apple's notarization service, which is not possible under standard network conditions due to HTTPS with proper TLS certificate validation; however, environments with TLS-intercepting proxies (common in corporate networks), compromised certificate authorities, or other trust boundary violations are at risk. When processing HTTP responses during notarization, Quill reads the entire response body into memory without any size limit. An attacker who can control or modify the response content can return an arbitrarily large payload, causing the Quill client to run out of memory and crash. The impact is limited to availability; there is no effect on confidentiality or integrity. Both the Quill CLI and library are affected when used to perform notarization operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.7.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| anchore | quill | before 0.7.1 | 0.7.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/anchore/quill (Go) | before 0.7.1 | 0.7.1 | Patch available | GHSA-g32c-4pvp-769g |
- quill Vendoranchore Affected before 0.7.1 Fixed in 0.7.1 Patch available CNA
- github.com/anchore/quill (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.7.1 Fixed in 0.7.1 Patch available GHSA-g32c-4pvp-769g
Remediation
- Fix · CNA quill (anchore) Fixed in 0.7.1
- Fix · GHSA-g32c-4pvp-769g github.com/anchore/quill (Go) Fixed in 0.7.1 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-31960
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g32c-4pvp-769g
References
Advisory 2
More anchore Quill vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-24505 Unbounded memory allocation in Quill via unvalidated size fields in Mach-O binary parsing CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
- TI-2026-24503 SSRF in Quill via unvalidated URL from Apple notarization log retrieval CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-31960 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-31960 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g32c-4pvp-769g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-31960 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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