CVE-2022-23649

Summary

CVECVE-2022-23649
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-18 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-03-07 14:27:00 UTC
DescriptionCosign provides container signing, verification, and storage in an OCI registry for the sigstore project. Prior to version 1.5.2, Cosign can be manipulated to claim that an entry for a signature exists in the Rekor transparency log even if it doesn't. This requires the attacker to have pull and push permissions for the signature in OCI. This can happen with both standard signing with a keypair and "keyless signing" with Fulcio. If an attacker has access to the signature in OCI, they can manipulate cosign into believing the entry was stored in Rekor even though it wasn't. The vulnerability has been patched in v1.5.2 of Cosign. The `signature` in the `signedEntryTimestamp` provided by Rekor is now compared to the `signature` that is being verified. If these don't match, then an error is returned. If a valid bundle is copied to a different signature, verification should fail. Cosign output now only informs the user that certificates were verified if a certificate was in fact verified. There is currently no known workaround.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sigstore Cosign All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cosign can be manipulated to falsely claim an entry exists in the Rekor transparency log · Advisory · sigstore/cosign · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Merge pull request from GHSA-ccxc-vr6p-4858 · sigstore/cosign@96d410a · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 502262 Alpine Linux Security Update for cosign
  • 504651 Alpine Linux Security Update for cosign
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