CVE-2025-24976CWE-639

Distribution's token authentication allows attacker to inject an untrusted signing key in a JWT

Medium · published February 11, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
27.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS
0.00353 · 27.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Published
2025-02-11T15:48Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 FEB 15:48Z
    Distribution's token authentication allows attacker to inject an untrusted signing key in a JWT
    cvelistv5