Description
Rekor is a software supply chain transparency log. In versions 1.4.3 and below, the entry implementation can panic on attacker-controlled input when canonicalizing a proposed entry with an empty spec.message, causing nil Pointer Dereference. Function validate() returns nil (success) when message is empty, leaving sign1Msg uninitialized, and Canonicalize() later dereferences v.sign1Msg.Payload. A malformed proposed entry of the cose/v0.0.1 type can cause a panic on a thread within the Rekor process. The thread is recovered so the client receives a 500 error message and service still continues, so the availability impact of this is minimal. This issue has been fixed in version 1.5.0.
Problem types
CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
Product status
References
github.com/.../rekor/security/advisories/GHSA-273p-m2cw-6833
github.com/...ommit/39bae3d192bce48ef4ef2cbd1788fb5770fee8cd
github.com/sigstore/rekor/releases/tag/v1.5.0