{"id":"CVE-2023-33959","aliases":["GHSA-xhg5-42rf-296r","GO-2023-1832"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2023-33959","summary":"Verification bypass can cause users into verifying the wrong artifact","details":"### Impact\nAn attacker who controls or compromises a registry can lead a user to verify the wrong artifact.\n\n### Patches\nThe problem has been fixed in the release [v1.0.0-rc.6](https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.6). Users should upgrade their notation-go library to [v1.0.0-rc.6](https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.6) or above.\n\n### Workarounds\nUser should use secure and trusted container registries.\n\n### Credits\nThe `notation` project would like to thank Adam Korczynski (@AdamKorcz) for responsibly disclosing the issue found during an security audit (facilitated by OSTIF and sponsored by CNCF) and Shiwei Zhang (@shizhMSFT), Pritesh Bandi (@priteshbandi)  for root cause analysis.\n","published":"2023-06-06T18:15:14.317Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:49.469686632Z","cvss":{"score":8.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.00354,"percentile":0.29056,"asOf":"2026-09-17"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/notaryproject/notation-go","fixedVersion":"1.0.0-rc.6"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/commit/39c8ed050a65cca3f3f308534acb612096735a64","label":"notaryproject/notation-go@39c8ed0"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/33xxx/CVE-2023-33959.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/security/advisories/GHSA-xhg5-42rf-296r"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33959"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/commit/39c8ed050a65cca3f3f308534acb612096735a64"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/commit/eba60f5aed9c9e05dee55324423c95fe34700b4c"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/notaryproject/notation-go/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.6"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:49.469686632Z"}}