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CVE-2023-46737

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46737 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cosign, a sigstore signing tool for OCI containers. An attacker controlling a remote registry can cause Cosign to enter a long or infinite loop by returning an excessive number of attestations or signatures, preventing legitimate users from verifying data. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a network attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of low availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sigstore:cosign:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.1LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/sigstore/cosign/v2Fixed in: 2.2.1
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/sigstore/cosignFixed in: 1.13.2
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines-client
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift-security-profiles-operator-container

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-vfp6-jrw2-99g9low

Cosign vulnerable to possible endless data attack from attacker-controlled registry

Nov 8, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-46737Low

cosign: potential denial of service by an attacker-controlled registry

Nov 7, 2023

References

github.com / sigstore/cosign/commit/8ac891ff0e29ddc67965423bee8f826219c6eb0f
Patch
github.com / sigstore/cosign/security/advisories/GHSA-vfp6-jrw2-99g9
ExploitVendor Advisory