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CVE-2023-45821
October 19, 2023
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. "https://artifacthub.io/" (https://artifacthub.io/) 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.
Affected Packages
github.com/artifacthub/hub (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v0.0.0-20200318204152-ef52bf99236b <v1.16.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.16.0
Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Download of Code Without Integrity Check
EPSS
Base Score:
0.04