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notation-go has excessive memory allocation on verification

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 20, 2023 in notaryproject/notation-go • Updated Jul 12, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/notaryproject/notation-go (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.0.0-rc.3

Patched versions

1.0.0-rc.3

Description

Impact

notation-go users will find their application using excessive memory when verifying signatures and the application will be finally killed, and thus availability is impacted.

Patches

The problem has been patched in the release v1.0.0-rc.3. Users should upgrade their notation-go packages to v1.0.0-rc.3 or above.

Workarounds

Users can review their own trust policy file and check if the identity string contains =#. Meanwhile, users should only put trusted certificates in their trust stores referenced by their own trust policy files, and make sure the authenticity validation is set to enforce

Credits

The notation-go project would like to thank Adam Korczynski (@AdamKorcz) for responsibly disclosing this issue during a security fuzzing audit sponsored by CNCF and Shiwei Zhang (@shizhMSFT) for root cause analysis and detailed vulnerability report.

References

References

@shizhMSFT shizhMSFT published to notaryproject/notation-go Feb 20, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 20, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 22, 2023
Reviewed Feb 22, 2023
Last updated Jul 12, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.101%
(43rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-25656

GHSA ID

GHSA-87x9-7grx-m28v

Source code

Credits

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