CVE-2026-25140 HIGH

CVE-2026-25140: apko affected by potential unbounded resource consumption in expandapk.ExpandApk on attacker-controlled .apk streams

Vendor Chainguard-Dev
Product apko
Weakness CWE-400
Published February 4, 2026
Last update February 4, 2026

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

apko allows users to build and publish OCI container images built from apk packages. From version 0.14.8 to before 1.1.1, an attacker who controls or compromises an APK repository used by apko could cause resource exhaustion on the build host. The ExpandApk function in pkg/apk/expandapk/expandapk.go expands .apk streams without enforcing decompression limits, allowing a malicious repository to serve a small, highly-compressed .apk that inflates into a large tar stream, consuming excessive disk space and CPU time, causing build failures or denial of service. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 4, 2026 CVE published
February 4, 2026 Record updated