CVE-2023-33957 | BDVDB-2026-204151 Detail

notaryprojectnotation

Description#

notation is a CLI tool to sign and verify OCI artifacts and container images. An attacker who has compromised a registry and added a high number of signatures to an artifact can cause denial of service of services on the machine, if a user runs notation inspect command on the same machine. The problem has been fixed in the release v1.0.0-rc.6. Users should upgrade their notation packages to v1.0.0-rc.6 or above. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may restrict container registries to a set of secure and trusted container registries.

Impact#

Per CVSS v3.1: confidentiality impact none, integrity impact none, availability impact low. Attack vector: network.

Weaknesses#

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References#

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12023-06-06Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-02Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.

Published

Published: 2023-06-06
Last modified: 2024-08-02

Vendor information

Vendor: notaryproject
Product: notation

All notaryproject vulnerabilities

Score

2.6 Low

EPSS

less than 1%, Very Low

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. EPSS percentile: 43.5.

KEV

Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impact

Denial of Service

Action

No specific action is recorded in the source data. Check the references for vendor guidance.

Affected Systems

Vulnerable
< 1.0.0-rc.6
Fixed
Not stated

Scoring System

CVSS v4.0

Not available

CVSS v3.1

2.6 Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Metric breakdown
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	High
Privileges Required	High
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity	None
Availability	Low

CVSS v3.0

Not available

CVSS v2

Not available

Source: CVE List v5 (record); CISA KEV (kev, action); FIRST EPSS (epss).