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SCA: security update for github.com/notaryproject/notation-go (GHSA-xhg5-42rf-296r)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420522

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - notation is a CLI tool to sign and verify OCI artifacts and container images. An attacker who has
 compromised a registry can cause users to verify the wrong artifact. The problem has been fixed in the
 release v1.0.0-rc.6. Users should upgrade their notation-go library to v1.0.0-rc.6 or above. Users unable
 to upgrade may restrict container registries to a set of secure and trusted container registries.
 (CVE-2023-33959)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhg5-42rf-296r

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420522

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33959

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33959

cwe: CWE-347