GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-w7wm-2425-7p2h MarbleRun unauthenticated recovery allows Coordinator impersonation
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-285
- Reviewed
- 2025-02-04
Affected packages
• Go github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun: < 1.7.0 → fixed in 1.7.0
Description
Impact
During recovery, a Coordinator only verifies that a given recovery key decrypts the sealed state, not if this key was provided by a party with access to one of the recovery keys defined in the manifest.
This allows an attacker to manually craft a sealed state using their own recovery keys, and a manifest that does not match the rest of the state.
If network traffic is redirected from the legitimate coordinator to the attacker's Coordinator, a remote party is susceptible to impersonation if they verify the Coordinator without comparing the root certificate of the Coordinator against a trusted reference.
Under these circumstances, an attacker can trick a remote party into trusting the malicious Coordinator by presenting a manifest that does not match the actual state of the deployment.
This issue does not affect the following:
• secrets and state of the legitimate Coordinator instances
• integrity of workloads
• certificates chaining back to the legitimate Coordinator root certificate
Patches
The issue has been patched in `v1.7.0`.
Workarounds
Connections that purely authenticate based on a known Coordinator's root certificate, e.g. the one retrieved when using the `marblerun manifest set` CLI command, are not affected.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun/security/advisories/GHSA-w7wm-2425-7p2h web
- https://github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun/commit/e4864f9f1d0f12a4a7d28514da43bcc75603a5b5 web
- https://github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun package
- https://github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun/releases/tag/v1.7.0 web
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3450 web