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CVE-2023-25656

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-25656 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting notation-go, a library for OCI artifact signing and verification, specifically impacting versions prior to 1.0.0-rc.3. The flaw, categorized as CWE-770 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command), causes excessive memory consumption during signature verification, leading to application termination and impacting availability. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:notaryproject:notation-go:0.7.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:notaryproject:notation-go:0.8.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:notaryproject:notation-go:0.9.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0.0-rc.3, < 1.0.0-rc.3CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:notaryproject:notation-go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 15th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/notaryproject/notation-goFixed in: 1.0.0-rc.3
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-87x9-7grx-m28vhigh

notation-go has excessive memory allocation on verification

Feb 22, 2023

References

github.com / notaryproject/notation-go/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.3
Release Notes
github.com / notaryproject/notation-go/security/advisories/GHSA-87x9-7grx-m28v
Vendor Advisory