Docker Notary Unauthorized Modification Vulnerability

Docker Notary is a set of tools for publishing and managing trusted content collections from Docker Inc. in the United States. A security vulnerability in the checkRoot function in the gotuf/client/client.go file in versions of Docker Notary prior to 0.1 stems from the program's failure to detect...

CVE-2015-9259: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

In Docker Notary before 0.1, the checkRoot function in gotuf/client/client.go does not check expiry of root.json files, despite a comment stating that it does. Even if a user creates a new root.json file after a key compromise, an attacker can produce update files referring to an old root.json fi...