# CVE-2022-35929: False positive signature verification in cosign

- Also known as: GO-2022-0758, BIT-COSIGN-2022-35929, GHSA-VJXV-45G9-9296
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.10.1
- Published: 2022-08-04 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- sigstore cosign: fixed in 1.10.1
- github.com/sigstore/cosign (Go): fixed in 1.10.1

## Description

cosign is a container signing and verification utility. In versions prior to 1.10.1 cosign can report a false positive if any attestation exists. `cosign verify-attestation` used with the `--type` flag will report a false positive verification when there is at least one attestation with a valid signature and there are NO attestations of the type being verified (--type defaults to "custom"). This can happen when signing with a standard keypair and with "keyless" signing with Fulcio. This vulnerability can be reproduced with the `distroless.dev/static@sha256:dd7614b5a12bc4d617b223c588b4e0c833402b8f4991fb5702ea83afad1986e2` image. This image has a `vuln` attestation but not an `spdx` attestation. However, if you run `cosign verify-attestation --type=spdx` on this image, it incorrectly succeeds. This issue has been addressed in version 1.10.1 of cosign. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sigstore cosign, github.com/sigstore/cosign, upgrade to a fixed version (1.10.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/security/advisories/GHSA-vjxv-45g9-9296
- https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/commit/c5fda01a8ff33ca981f45a9f13e7fb6bd2080b94

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