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.
Published: 2022-09-14
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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


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Redhat Advanced Cluster Security
Sigstore Cosign
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-22T17:21:40.980Z

Reserved: 2022-07-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-36056

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T09:52:00.499Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-14T20:15:09.860

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:12:16.937

Link: CVE-2022-36056

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-09-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-36056 - Bugzilla

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