CVE-2024-29903
CVSS 3.1 Score 4.2 of 10 (medium)
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Summary
CVE-2024-29903 is a vulnerability found in Cosign, a code signing and transparency tool for containers and binaries. The vulnerability exists in versions prior to 2.2.4 and can be exploited by maliciously-crafted software artifacts to cause a denial of service on the host machine running Cosign, impacting all services on the machine. The root cause of this vulnerability is that Cosign allocates excessive memory based on the number of signatures, manifests, or attestations in untrusted artifacts, allowing the attacker to control the amount of memory allocated. The issue has been patched in version 2.2.4 to mitigate the vulnerability.
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