GHSA-qq97-vm5h-rrhgLow· 3.0▾ SunlitOCI Manifest Type Confusion Issue
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 16.5 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
Systems that rely on digest equivalence for image attestations may be vulnerable to type confusion.
Upgrade to at least v2.8.0-beta.1 if you are running v2.x release. If you use the code from the main branch, update at least to the commit after b59a6f827947f9e0e67df0cfb571046de4733586.
There is no way to work around this issue without patching.
Due to an oversight in the OCI Image Specification that removed the embedded mediaType field from manifests, a maliciously crafted OCI Container Image can cause registry clients to parse the same image in two different ways without modifying the image’s digest by modifying the Content-Type header returned by a registry. This can invalidate a common pattern of relying on container image digests for equivalence.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
github.com/docker/distribution < 2.8.0Upgrade to a patched release:
github.com/docker/distribution 2.8.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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