In short
- CVE-2025-24976 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.6) vulnerability affecting github.com/distribution/distribution.
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 29.1% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
Description
Distribution's token authentication allows attacker to inject an untrusted signing key in a JWT in github.com/distribution/distribution
NVD description
Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Systems running registry versions 3.0.0-beta.1 through 3.0.0-rc.2 with token authentication enabled may be vulnerable to an issue in which token authentication allows an attacker to inject an untrusted signing key in a JSON web token (JWT). The issue lies in how the JSON web key (JWK) verification is performed. When a JWT contains a JWK header without a certificate chain, the code only checks if the KeyID (`kid`) matches one of the trusted keys, but doesn't verify that the actual key material matches. A fix for the issue is available at commit 5ea9aa028db65ca5665f6af2c20ecf9dc34e5fcd and expected to be a part of version 3.0.0-rc.3. There is no way to work around this issue without patching if the system requires token authentication.
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