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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1tYzh2LW1ncmYtOGY0bc0XWA

Clarify Content-Type handling

Impact

In the OCI Distribution Specification version 1.0.0 and prior, the Content-Type header alone was used to determine the type of document during push and pull operations. Documents that contain both “manifests” and “layers” fields could be interpreted as either a manifest or an index in the absence of an accompanying Content-Type header. If a Content-Type header changed between two pulls of the same digest, a client may interpret the resulting content differently.

Patches

The OCI Distribution Specification will be updated to require that a mediaType value present in a manifest or index match the Content-Type header used during the push and pull operations.

Workarounds

Clients pulling from a registry may distrust the Content-Type header and reject an ambiguous document that contains both “manifests” and “layers” fields or “manifests” and “config” fields.

References

https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/security/advisories/GHSA-77vh-xpmg-72qh

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/
• Email us at [email protected]

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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: about 3 years ago
Updated: almost 2 years ago

CVSS Score: 3.0
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-mc8v-mgrf-8f4m, CVE-2021-41190
References:

• https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/security/advisories/GHSA-mc8v-mgrf-8f4m
• https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/commit/ac28cac0557bcd3084714ab09f9f2356fe504923
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41190
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/19/10
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A2RRFNTMFYKOTRKD37F5ANMCIO3GGJML/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DX63GRWFEI5RVMYV6XLMCG4OHPWZML27/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SQBCYJUIM5GVCMFUPRWKRZNXMMI5EFA4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/T4OJ764CKKCWCVONHD4YXTGR7HZ7LRUV/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3TUZNDAH2B26VPBK342UC3BHZNLBUXGX/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RZTO6N55WHKHIZI4IMLY2QFBPMVTAERM/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4334HT7AZPLWNYHW4ARU6JBUF3VZJPZN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YIGVQWOA5XXCQXEOOKZX4CDAGLBDRPRX/
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mc8v-mgrf-8f4m

Repository: https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec
Blast Radius: 4.9

Affected Packages