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

GHSA-7rp8-r62p-q6wc · CVE-2026-29049 · GO-2026-4588

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Description

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 runner. Affected versions <= 0.40.5.

Fix: Merged
Acknowledgements

melange thanks Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting this issue.

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