CVE-2025-62375 (GCVE-0-2025-62375)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-15 19:23 – Updated: 2025-10-15 19:44
VLAI
Title
go-witness Improper Verification of AWS EC2 Identity Documents
Summary
go-witness and witness are Go modules for generating attestations. In go-witness versions 0.8.6 and earlier and witness versions 0.9.2 and earlier the AWS attestor improperly verifies AWS EC2 instance identity documents. Verification can incorrectly succeed when a signature is not present or is empty, and when RSA signature verification fails. The attestor also embeds a single legacy global AWS public certificate and does not account for newer region specific certificates issued in 2024, making detection of forged documents difficult without additional trusted region data. An attacker able to supply or intercept instance identity document data (such as through Instance Metadata Service impersonation) can cause a forged identity document to be accepted, leading to incorrect trust decisions based on the attestation. This is fixed in go-witness 0.9.1 and witness 0.10.1. As a workaround, manually verify the included identity document, signature, and public key with standard tools (for example openssl) following AWS’s verification guidance, or disable use of the AWS attestor until upgraded.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-15 19:44 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7562 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
in-toto go-witness Affected: < 0.9.1
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