Octo STS leaks trust policy details in Exchange error messages
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-209.
Summary
The octo-sts app before 0.11.2 returns trust policy details to callers whose OIDC token does not satisfy the policy. Its error messages include the policy's issuer, subject, audience and claim values (CWE-209). An attacker with any validly signed OIDC token, such as one from a repository they own, can read a target policy's matching rules by guessing its owner, repository and identity name. The flaw does not allow minting tokens or bypassing a policy.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Description from the CNA
Octo STS (github.com/octo-sts/app) before 0.11.2 returns trust policy configuration to callers whose OIDC token does not satisfy that policy. TrustPolicy.CheckToken included the policy's issuer, subject and audience values or patterns and claim_pattern names and regular expressions in its PermissionDenied errors, which Exchange returned verbatim. Exchange also selected the GitHub App installation before checking the token, so errors from resolving the policy's app or app_pattern pin were returned to callers the policy does not trust. An attacker who holds any validly signed OIDC token, such as a GitHub Actions token from a repository they own, and who knows or guesses a target owner/repo and identity name can read that policy's matching rules, even when the policy is stored in a private repository. These rules often name internal repositories, branches, environments or cloud account identifiers. The issue does not allow minting tokens or bypassing a trust policy. This issue is fixed in 0.11.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Update octo-sts app to version 0.11.2, which fixes this issue.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
- Fix · CNA app (octo-sts) Fixed in 0.11.2
Timeline
- 2026-11-03 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-105770
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
More octo-sts vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-32604 Octo-STS Vulnerable to Unauthenticated SSRF with HTTP Response Reflection in OIDC Flow CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2024-22536 octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7
Sources
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