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GHSA-w7wm-2425-7p2h json

MarbleRun unauthenticated recovery allows Coordinator impersonation

published last yr. modified 8mo ago also GO-2025-3450

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### Impact

During recovery, a Coordinator only verifies that a given recovery key decrypts the sealed state, not if this key was provided by a party with access to one of the recovery keys defined in the manifest. This allows an attacker to manually craft a sealed state using their own recovery keys, and a manifest that does not match the rest of the state.

If network traffic is redirected from the legitimate coordinator to the attacker's Coordinator, a remote party is susceptible to impersonation if they verify the Coordinator without comparing the root certificate of the Coordinator against a trusted reference.

Under these circumstances, an attacker can trick a remote party into trusting the malicious Coordinator by presenting a manifest that does not match the actual state of the deployment.

This issue does **not** affect the following:

* secrets and state of the legitimate Coordinator instances * integrity of workloads * certificates chaining back to the legitimate Coordinator root certificate

### Patches

The issue has been patched in [`v1.7.0`](https://github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun/releases/tag/v1.7.0).

### Workarounds

Connections that purely authenticate based on a known Coordinator's root certificate, e.g. the one retrieved when using the `marblerun manifest set` CLI command, are not affected.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun 1.7.0

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/edgelesssys/marblerun
<1.7.0
1.7.0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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