GO-2023-2181

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    GO-2023-2181

    Published: 9 Nov 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Denial of service attack from remote registry in github.com/sigstore/cosign

    Details: An attacker who controls a remote registry can return a high number of attestations and/or signatures to cosign. This can cause cosign to enter a long loop resulting in a denial of service, i.e., endless data attack.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/sigstore/cosign

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/sigstore/cosign

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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