CVE-2022-36056

Vulnerabilities with blob verification in sigstore cosign

Published Sep 14, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Cosign is a project under the sigstore organization which aims to make signatures invisible infrastructure. In versions prior to 1.12.0 a number of vulnerabilities have been found in cosign verify-blob, where Cosign would successfully verify an artifact when verification should have failed. First a cosign bundle can be crafted to successfully verify a blob even if the embedded rekorBundle does not reference the given signature. Second, when providing identity flags, the email and issuer of a certificate is not checked when verifying a Rekor bundle, and the GitHub Actions identity is never checked. Third, providing an invalid Rekor bundle without the experimental flag results in a successful verification. And fourth an invalid transparency log entry will result in immediate success for verification. Details and examples of these issues can be seen in the GHSA-8gw7-4j42-w388 advisory linked. Users are advised to upgrade to 1.12.0. There are no known workarounds for these issues.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8gw7-4j42-w388 Cosign bundle can be crafted to successfully verify a blob even if the embedded rekorBundle does not reference the given signature
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Apr 22, 2025, 5:21 PM
Reserved
Jul 15, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 14, 2022, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:52 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 14, 2022, 12:00 AM