Resource exhaustion in Cosign - CVE-2024-29902

 

Resource exhaustion in Cosign - CVE-2024-29902

Published: May 7, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU89209
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29902
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling attachments. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Cosign
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
cosign-debuginfo
cosign
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes

How to mitigate CVE-2024-29902

Install updates from vendor's website.

Cosign - update to 2.2.4
cosign-debuginfo - update to 2.2.4-150400.3.20.1
cosign - update to 2.2.4-150400.3.20.1
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes - update to 4.5.0

External References

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