CVE-2024-56138
MEDIUMDescription
notion-go is a collection of libraries for supporting sign and verify OCI artifacts. Based on Notary Project specifications. This issue was identified during Quarkslab's audit of the timestamp feature. During the timestamp signature generation, the revocation status of the certificate(s) used to generate the timestamp signature was not verified. During timestamp signature generation, notation-go did not check the revocation status of the certificate chain used by the TSA. This oversight creates a vulnerability that could be exploited through a Man-in-The-Middle attack. An attacker could potentially use a compromised, intermediate, or revoked leaf certificate to generate a malicious countersignature, which would then be accepted and stored by `notation`. This could lead to denial of service scenarios, particularly in CI/CD environments during signature verification processes because timestamp signature would fail due to the presence of a revoked certificate(s) potentially disrupting operations. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.3.0-rc.2 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
How to fix
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CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 3% of all known CVEs.
References
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| CVE-2020-1675 | High | 8.3 | 0.6% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2020-16228 | Medium | 6.4 | 0.4% | - | - |
| CVE-2025-3085 | High | 8.1 | 0.3% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2025-11955 | Unscored | - | 0.3% | - | - |
| CVE-2026-4428 | High | 7.4 | 0.3% | - | - |
| CVE-2023-23690 | High | 7.0 | 0.2% | - | Fix |
Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2024-56138?
Upgrade golang-github-notaryproject-notation-go on debian unstable to 1.3.2-1 or later.
Is CVE-2024-56138 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2024-56138 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.13% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 3% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2024-56138?
CVE-2024-56138 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.0, rated medium. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2024-56138 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for golang-github-notaryproject-notation-go (Debian). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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