stacklok Minder up to 0.0.50 $checksumref allocation of resources

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in stacklok Minder up to 0.0.50. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file orgs/$owner/attestations/$checksumref. The manipulation results in allocation of resources. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-35238. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in stacklok Minder up to 0.0.50. Affected is an unknown functionality of the file orgs/$owner/attestations/$checksumref. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Minder by Stacklok is an open source software supply chain security platform. Minder prior to version 0.0.51 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack which could allow an attacker to crash the Minder server and deny other users access to it. The root cause of the vulnerability is that Minders sigstore verifier reads an untrusted response entirely into memory without enforcing a limit on the response body. An attacker can exploit this by making Minder make a request to an attacker-controlled endpoint which returns a response with a large body which will crash the Minder server. Specifically, the point of failure is where Minder parses the response from the GitHub attestations endpoint in `getAttestationReply`. Here, Minder makes a request to the `orgs/$owner/attestations/$checksumref` GitHub endpoint (line 285) and then parses the response into the `AttestationReply` (line 295). The way Minder parses the response on line 295 makes it prone to DoS if the response is large enough. Essentially, the response needs to be larger than the machine has available memory. Version 0.0.51 contains a patch for this issue. The content that is hosted at the `orgs/$owner/attestations/$checksumref` GitHub attestation endpoint is controlled by users including unauthenticated users to Minders threat model. However, a user will need to configure their own Minder settings to cause Minder to make Minder send a request to fetch the attestations. The user would need to know of a package whose attestations were configured in such a way that they would return a large response when fetching them. As such, the steps needed to carry out this attack would look as such: 1. The attacker adds a package to ghcr.io with attestations that can be fetched via the `orgs/$owner/attestations/$checksumref` GitHub endpoint. 2. The attacker registers on Minder and makes Minder fetch the attestations. 3. Minder fetches attestations and crashes thereby being denied of service.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-35238 since 05/14/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 0.0.51 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• stacklok

Name

• Minder

Version

• 0.0.1
• 0.0.2
• 0.0.3
• 0.0.4
• 0.0.5
• 0.0.6
• 0.0.7
• 0.0.8
• 0.0.9
• 0.0.10
• 0.0.11
• 0.0.12
• 0.0.13
• 0.0.14
• 0.0.15
• 0.0.16
• 0.0.17
• 0.0.18
• 0.0.19
• 0.0.20
• 0.0.21
• 0.0.22
• 0.0.23
• 0.0.24
• 0.0.25
• 0.0.26
• 0.0.27
• 0.0.28
• 0.0.29
• 0.0.30
• 0.0.31
• 0.0.32
• 0.0.33
• 0.0.34
• 0.0.35
• 0.0.36
• 0.0.37
• 0.0.38
• 0.0.39
• 0.0.40
• 0.0.41
• 0.0.42
• 0.0.43
• 0.0.44
• 0.0.45
• 0.0.46
• 0.0.47
• 0.0.48
• 0.0.49
• 0.0.50

Website

• Product: https://github.com/stacklok/minder/

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