What is CVE-2023-33958?

CVE-2023-33958 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Notaryproject Notation, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2023-33958?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Notaryproject Notation

CVE-2023-33958

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…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.005 (38.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Notaryproject Notation — versions < 1.0.0-rc.6
Notaryproject Notation-go — versions 1.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-33958?: CVE-2023-33958 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Notaryproject Notation, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2023-33958?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.