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High · 7.1 CVE-2022-35929 BIT-cosign-2022-35929EUVD-2022-6632GHSA-vjxv-45g9-9296GO-2022-0758

False positive signature verification in cosign

Published Aug 4, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

cosign is a container signing and verification utility. In versions prior to 1.10.1 cosign can report a false positive if any attestation exists. `cosign verify-attestation` used with the `--type` flag will report a false positive verification when there is at least one attestation with a valid signature and there are NO attestations of the type being verified (--type defaults to "custom"). This can happen when signing with a standard keypair and with "keyless" signing with Fulcio. This vulnerability can be reproduced with the `distroless.dev/static@sha256:dd7614b5a12bc4d617b223c588b4e0c833402b8f4991fb5702ea83afad1986e2` image. This image has a `vuln` attestation but not an `spdx` attestation. However, if you run `cosign verify-attestation --type=spdx` on this image, it incorrectly succeeds. This issue has been addressed in version 1.10.1 of cosign. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sigstore cosign < 1.10.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP4 cosign 1.10.1-150400.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2022:2877-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed cosign 1.10.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12240-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 cosign 1.10.1-150400.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2022:2877-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 cosign 1.10.1-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/sigstore/cosign < 1.10.1 1.10.1 GHSA-vjxv-45g9-9296

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