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Cosign vulnerable to system-wide denial of service via malicious attachments

Published Apr 10, 2024

Description

Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Prior to version 2.2.4, a remote image with a malicious attachment can cause denial of service of the host machine running Cosign. This can impact other services on the machine that rely on having memory available such as a Redis database which can result in data loss. It can also impact the availability of other services on the machine that will not be available for the duration of the machine denial. The root cause of this issue is that Cosign reads the attachment from a remote image entirely into memory without checking the size of the attachment first. As such, a large attachment can make Cosign read a large attachment into memory; If the attachments size is larger than the machine has memory available, the machine will be denied of service. The Go runtime will make a SigKill after a few seconds of system-wide denial. This issue can allow a supply-chain escalation from a compromised registry to the Cosign user: If an attacher has compromised a registry or the account of an image vendor, they can include a malicious attachment and hurt the image consumer. Version 2.2.4 contains a patch for the vulnerability.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Apr 10, 2024
Updated Aug 2, 2024
Reserved Mar 21, 2024
Link CVE-2024-29902
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jun 3, 2024
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2024-29902
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 10, 2024
Links CVE-2024-29902 - Bugzilla
ENISA EUVD
Assigner n/a
Published n/a
Updated n/a
Exploited since n/a
Link n/a
GHSA-88JX-383Q-W4QC