| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| github.com/crossplane/crossplane | ≤ 1.21.0-rc.0 | |
| github.com/crossplane/crossplane/v2 | ≥ 2.3.0-rc.0, < 2.3.3< 2.2.3 | 2.3.32.2.3 |
Crossplane allows package signature verification to be configured via the ImageConfig mechanism. When enabled, the package manager uses cosign to verify that packages are correctly signed before pulling and installing them.
When a package is installed using a tag reference (e.g., a semantic version), a malicious OCI registry could serve a correctly signed image for verification, then subsequently serve an unsigned image for installation. This is possible because Crossplane resolves the tag reference separately for each step.
This vulnerability is relevant only for users who do all three of the following:
Installing packages by image digest rather than using tags avoids this issue.
The package manager has been updated to resolve tag references once and use the resulting digest for both signature verification and image fetching. This ensures that Crossplane pulls the same content that had its signature verified. The fix has been applied to Crossplane's main branch and backported to the v2.3 and v2.2 release branches; it will be released in v2.3.3 and v2.2.3.
The Crossplane maintainers are not planning to backport the fix for this advisory to the 1.20 branch, for two reasons:
This issue was reported, independently, by @bugbunny-research and @tonghuaroot.
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