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Client Denial of Service on TUF

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 20, 2020 in theupdateframework/python-tuf • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

pip tuf (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.13.0

Patched versions

None

Description

Impact

An attacker who can gain file access to the repository and modify metadata files may cause a denial of service to clients by creating many invalid signatures on a metadata file. Having a large number of signatures to verify will delay the moment when the client will determine the signature is not valid. This delay may be for at least a few minutes, but possibly could be longer especially if multiple files are impacted.

The tuf maintainers would like to thank Erik MacLean of Analog Devices, Inc. for reporting this issue.

Patches

No fix exists for this issue.

Workarounds

No workarounds are known for this issue.

References

References

@joshuagl joshuagl published to theupdateframework/python-tuf Aug 20, 2020
Reviewed Aug 21, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 21, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

0.117%
(47th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-6173

GHSA ID

GHSA-2828-9vh6-9m6j

Source code

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