High severity · published Apr 10, 2024
CVE-2024-29903
Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries
7.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Prior to version 2.2.4, maliciously-crafted software artifacts can cause denial of service of the machine running Cosign thereby impacting all services on the machine. The root cause is that Cosign creates slices based on the number of signatures, manifests or attestations in untrusted artifacts. As such, the untrusted artifact can control the amount of memory that Cosign allocates. The exact issue is Cosign allocates excessive memory on the lines that creates a slice of the same length as the manifests. Version 2.2.4 contains a patch for the vulnerability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Cosign · Sigstore
before 2.2.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29903
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29903
Product
https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/blob/14795db16417579fac0c00c11e166868d7976b61/pkg/cosign/verify.go#L948-L955
Product
https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/blob/286a98a4a99c1b2f32f84b0d560e324100312280/pkg/oci/remote/signatures.go#L56-L70
Patch
https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/commit/629f5f8fa672973503edde75f84dcd984637629e
Release Notes
https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/releases/tag/v2.2.4
Exploit
https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/security/advisories/GHSA-95pr-fxf5-86gv
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