Artifact Hub up to 1.15.x code download

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Artifact Hub up to 1.15.x. This affects an unknown part. Executing a manipulation can lead to code download. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-45821. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Artifact Hub up to 1.15.x. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code download vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-494. The product downloads source code or an executable from a remote location and executes the code without sufficiently verifying the origin and integrity of the code. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Artifact Hub is a web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing packages and configurations for CNCF projects. During a security audit of Artifact Hub's code base a security researcher identified a bug in which the `registryIsDockerHub` function was only checking that the registry domain had the `docker.io` suffix. Artifact Hub allows providing some Docker credentials that are used to increase the rate limit applied when interacting with the Docker Hub registry API to read publicly available content. Due to the incorrect check described above, it'd be possible to hijack those credentials by purchasing a domain which ends with `docker.io` and deploying a fake OCI registry on it. uses some credentials that only have permissions to read public content available in the Docker Hub. However, even though credentials for private repositories (disabled on `artifacthub.io`) are handled in a different way, other Artifact Hub deployments could have been using them for a different purpose. This issue has been resolved in version `1.16.0`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The weakness was disclosed 10/20/2023 as GHSA-g6pq-x539-7w4j. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-45821 since 10/13/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1495.

Upgrading to version 1.16.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at artifacthub.io.

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• Artifact Hub

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15

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