GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-9m3v-v4r5-ppx7 Notation vulnerable to denial of service from high number of artifact signatures
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-33957
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/notaryproject/notation
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2023-06-06
Affected packages
• Go github.com/notaryproject/notation: < 1.0.0-rc.6 → fixed in 1.0.0-rc.6
Description
Impact
An attacker who controls or compromises a registry can make the registry serve an infinite number of signatures for the artifact, causing a denial of service to the host machine running `notation verify`.
Patches
The problem has been fixed in the release v1.0.0-rc.6. Users should upgrade their notation packages to v1.0.0-rc.6 or above.
Workarounds
User should use secure and trusted container registries.
Credits
The `notation` project would like to thank Adam Korczynski (@AdamKorcz) for responsibly disclosing the issue found during an security audit (facilitated by OSTIF and sponsored by CNCF) and Shiwei Zhang (@shizhMSFT) for root cause analysis.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-33957 notation is a CLI tool to sign and verify OCI artifacts and container images. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/security/advisories/GHSA-9m3v-v4r5-ppx7 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33957 advisory
- https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/commit/ed22fde52f6d70ae0b53521bd28c9ccafa868c24 web
- https://github.com/notaryproject/notation package
- https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.6 web