CVE-2023-40012 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/trailofbits/uthenticode/commit/caeb1eb62412605f71bd96ce9bb9420644b6db53 https://github.com/trailofbits/uthenticode/security/advisories/GHSA-gm2f-j4rj-6xqj https://github.com/trailofbits/uthenticode/pull/78