Vulnerability · Published Aug 9, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2023-40012uthenticode EKU validation bypass
Medium 5.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in uthenticode from trailofbits. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
uthenticode is a small cross-platform library for partially verifying Authenticode digital signatures. Versions of uthenticode prior to the 2.x series did not check Extended Key Usages in certificates, in violation of the Authenticode X.509 certificate profile. As a result, a malicious user could produce a "signed" PE file that uthenticode would verify and consider valid using an X.509 certificate that isn't entitled to produce code signatures (e.g., a SSL certificate). By design, uthenticode does not perform full-chain validation. However, the absence of EKU validation was an unintended oversight. The 2.0.0 release series includes EKU checks. There are no workarounds to this vulnerability.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| trailofbits | uthenticode | < 2.0.0 |
Weakness: CWE-325, CWE-347 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N