x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/distribution/distribution: CVE-2025-24976

[GoVulnBot]

Advisory CVE-2025-24976 references a vulnerability in the following Go modules:

Module
github.com/distribution/distribution

Description:
Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Systems running registry versions 3.0.0-beta.1 through 3.0.0-rc.2 with token authentication enabled may be vulnerable to an issue in which token authentication allows an attacker to inject an untrusted signing key in a JSON web token (JWT). The issue lies in how the JSON web key (JWK) verification is performed. When a JWT contains a JWK header without a certificate chain, the code only checks if the KeyID (kid) matches one of the trusted keys, but doesn't verify that the actual key material matches. A fix for the ...

References:

• ADVISORY: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24976
• FIX: distribution/distribution@5ea9aa0
• WEB: GHSA-phw4-mc57-4hwc

Cross references:

• github.com/distribution/distribution appears in 1 other report(s):
  • data/reports/GO-2023-1772.yaml (x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/docker/distribution: GHSA-hqxw-f8mx-cpmw #1772)

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id: GO-ID-PENDING
modules:
    - module: github.com/distribution/distribution
      vulnerable_at: 2.8.3+incompatible
summary: CVE-2025-24976 in github.com/distribution/distribution
cves:
    - CVE-2025-24976
references:
    - advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24976
    - fix: https://github.com/distribution/distribution/commit/5ea9aa028db65ca5665f6af2c20ecf9dc34e5fcd
    - web: https://github.com/distribution/distribution/security/advisories/GHSA-phw4-mc57-4hwc
source:
    id: CVE-2025-24976
    created: 2025-02-11T17:01:32.4923036Z
review_status: UNREVIEWED