CVE-2023-33959

Verification bypass can cause users into verifying the wrong artifact

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Jun 6, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: May 24, 2023

Description

notation is a CLI tool to sign and verify OCI artifacts and container images. An attacker who has compromised a registry can cause users to verify the wrong artifact. The problem has been fixed in the release v1.0.0-rc.6. Users should upgrade their notation-go library to v1.0.0-rc.6 or above. Users unable to upgrade may restrict container registries to a set of secure and trusted container registries.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Affected Products

Product	Versions
notation-gonotaryproject	< 1.0.0-rc.6Affected

References

https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/security/advisories/GHSA-xhg5-42rf-296r

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