SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : cosign (SUSE-SU-2024:0430-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190341

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0430-1 advisory.

Updated to 2.2.3 (jsc#SLE-23879):

Bug Fixes:

* Fix race condition on verification with multiple signatures attached to image (#3486)
* fix(clean): Fix clean cmd for private registries (#3446)
* Fixed BYO PKI verification (#3427)

Features:

* Allow for option in cosign attest and attest-blob to upload attestation as supported in Rekor (#3466)
* Add support for OpenVEX predicate type (#3405)

Documentation:

* Resolves #3088: `version` sub-command expected behaviour documentation and testing (#3447)
* add examples for cosign attach signature cmd (#3468)

Misc:

* Remove CertSubject function (#3467)
* Use local rekor and fulcio instances in e2e tests (#3478)

- bumped embedded golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to fix the Terrapin attack CVE-2023-48795 (bsc#1218207)

Updated to 2.2.2 (jsc#SLE-23879):

v2.2.2 adds a new container with a shell, gcr.io/projectsigstore/cosign:vx.y.z-dev, in addition to the existing container gcr.io/projectsigstore/cosign:vx.y.z without a shell.

For private deployments, we have also added an alias for
--insecure-skip-log, --private-infrastructure.

Bug Fixes:

* chore(deps): bump github.com/sigstore/sigstore from 1.7.5 to 1.7.6 (#3411) which fixes a bug with using Azure KMS
* Don't require CT log keys if using a key/sk (#3415)
* Fix copy without any flag set (#3409)
* Update cosign generate cmd to not include newline (#3393)
* Fix idempotency error with signing (#3371)

Features:

* Add --yes flag cosign import-key-pair to skip the overwrite confirmation. (#3383)
* Use the timeout flag value in verify* commands. (#3391)
* add --private-infrastructure flag (#3369)

Container Updates:

* Bump builder image to use go1.21.4 and add new cosign image tags with shell (#3373)

Documentation:

* Update SBOM_SPEC.md (#3358)

- CVE-2023-48795: Fixed the Terrapin attack in embedded golang.org/x/crypto/ssh (bsc#1218207).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected cosign package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1218207

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-48795

http://www.nessus.org/u?478d95a6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190341

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0430-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48795

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Threat Score: 5.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cosign, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48795

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0430-1