GHSA-9m3v-v4r5-ppx7MediumCVSS 5.7

Notation vulnerable to denial of service from high number of artifact signatures

Published
June 6, 2023
Last Modified
March 1, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/notaryproject/notation:< 1.0.0-rc.6

🔗 References (5)