CVE-2023-33959

HIGH8.8EPSS 0.15%

notation-go's verification bypass can cause users to verify the wrong artifact

Published: 6/6/2023Modified: 2/4/2026
Also known as:GHSA-xhg5-42rf-296rCGA-2qgm-6fxc-686hGO-2023-1832

Description

### Impact An attacker who controls or compromises a registry can lead a user to verify the wrong artifact. ### Patches The problem has been fixed in the release [v1.0.0-rc.6](https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.6). Users should upgrade their notation-go library to [v1.0.0-rc.6](https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/releases/tag/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), Pritesh Bandi (@priteshbandi) for root cause analysis.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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