SUSE-SU-2023:4870-1: Security update for cosign

Published Dec 14, 2023
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Updated

This update for cosign fixes the following issues: Updated to 2.2.1 (jsc#SLE-23879) Enhancements: CVE-2023-46737: Possible endless data attack from attacker-controlled registry (bsc#1216933) feat: Support basic auth and bearer auth login to registry (#3310) add support for ignoring certificates with pkcs11 (#3334) Support ReplaceOp in Signatures (#3315) feat: added ability to get image digest back via triangulate (#3255) feat: add --only flag in cosign copy to copy sign, att & sbom (#3247) feat: add support attaching a Rekor bundle to a container (#3246) feat: add support outputting rekor response on signing (#3248) feat: improve dockerfile verify subcommand (#3264) Add guard flag for experimental OCI 1.1 verify. (#3272) Deprecate SBOM attachments (#3256) feat: dedent line in cosign copy doc (#3244) feat: add platform flag to cosign copy command (#3234) Add SLSA 1.0 attestation support to cosign. Closes #2860 (#3219) attest: pass OCI remote opts to att resolver. (#3225) Bug Fixes: Merge pull request from GHSA-vfp6-jrw2-99g9 fix: allow cosign download sbom when image is absent (#3245) ci: add a OCI registry test for referrers support (#3253) Fix ReplaceSignatures (#3292) Stop using deprecated intoto.ProvenanceStatement (#3243) Fixes #3236, disable SCT checking for a cosign verification when using .. (#3237) fix: update error in SignedEntity to be more descriptive (#3233) Fail timestamp verification if no root is provided (#3224) Documentation: Add some docs about verifying in an air-gapped environment (#3321) Update CONTRIBUTING.md (#3268) docs: improves the Contribution guidelines (#3257) Remove security policy (#3230) Others: Set go to min 1.21 and update dependencies (#3327) Update contact for code of conduct (#3266) Update .ko.yaml (#3240) Updated to 2.2.0 (jsc#SLE-23879) Enhancements switch to uploading DSSE types to rekor instead of intoto (#3113) add 'cosign sign' command-line parameters for mTLS (#3052) improve error messages around bundle != payload hash (#3146) make VerifyImageAttestation function public (#3156) Switch to cryptoutils function for SANS (#3185) Handle HTTP11REQUIRED errors in github provider (#3172) Bug Fixes Fix nondeterminsitic timestamps (#3121) Documentation doc: Add example of sign-blob with key in env var (#3152) add deprecation notice for cosign-releases GCS bucket (#3148) update doc links (#3186) Updated to 2.1.1 (jsc#SLE-23879) Bug Fixes wait for the workers become available again to continue the execution (#3084) fix help text when in a container (#3082) Updated to 2.1.0 (jsc#SLE-23879) Breaking Change: The predicate is now a required flag in the attest commands, set via the --type flag. Enhancements Verify sigs and attestations in parallel (#3066) Deep inspect attestations when filtering download (#3031) refactor bundle validation code, add support for DSSE rekor type (#3016) Allow overriding remote options (#3049) feat: adds no cert found on sig exit code (#3038) Make predicate a required flag in attest commands (#3033) Added support for attaching Time stamp authority Response in attach command (#3001) Add sign --sign-container-identity CLI (#2984) Feature: Allow cosign to sign digests before they are uploaded. (#2959) accepts attachment-tag-prefix for cosign copy (#3014) Feature: adds '--allow-insecure-registry' for cosign load (#3000) download attestation: support --platform flag (#2980) Cleanup: Add Digest to the SignedEntity interface. (#2960) verify command: support keyless verification using only a provided certificate chain with non-fulcio roots (#2845) verify: use workers to limit the paralellism when verifying images with --max-workers flag (#3069) Bug Fixes Fix pkg/cosign/errors (#3050) Fix: update doc to refer to github-actions oidc provider (#3040) Fix: prefer GitHub OIDC provider if enabled (#3044) Fix --sig-only in cosign copy (#3074) Documentation Fix links to sigstore/docs in markdown files (#3064) Update to 2.0.2 (jsc#SLE-23879) Enhancements Update sigstore/sigstore to v1.6.2 to pick up TUF CDN change (#2891) feat: Make cosign copy faster (#2901) remove sget (#2885) Require a payload to be provided with a signature (#2785)

Bug Fixes cmd: Change error message from KeyParseError to PubKeyParseError for verify-blob. (#2876) Use SOURCEDATEEPOCH for OCI CreatedAt times (#2878)

Documentation Remove experimental warning from Fulcio flags (#2923) add missing oidc provider (#2922) Add zot as a supported registry (#2920) deprecates kmssupport docs (#2900) chore(docs) deprecate note for usage docs (#2906) adds note of deprecation for examples.md docs (#2899)

Affected Software

9 affected componentsFixes available
All of the following
SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
Any of the following
suse/cosign-debuginfo<2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
suse/cosign<2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
All of the following
SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
suse/cosign<2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
All of the following
SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
suse/cosign<2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
All of the following
SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
suse/cosign<2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
2.2.1-150400.3.14.1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/cosign-debuginfo to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/cosign to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.2.1-150400.3.14.1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade cosign to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.2.1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-2023-4870
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4870
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-4870
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4870
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4870

Event History

Dec 14, 2023
Advisory Published
04:30 PM

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What systems are in scope for this update?

The update applies to cosign on openSUSE Leap 15.4 and 15.5, and on SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP4 and 15-SP5. Listed architectures include aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64; Leap 15.4 also includes i586.

2

What attacker-controlled input is relevant to the addressed CVE?

CVE-2023-46737 concerns a possible endless-data attack from an attacker-controlled registry. Systems that use cosign against registries not fully trusted by the operator are the relevant exposure scenario.

3

What version does this update provide?

This update upgrades cosign to version 2.2.1.

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