Bug 2236303 (CVE-2023-36811)

Summary:	CVE-2023-36811 borgbackup: spoofed archive leads to data loss
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Chess Hazlett <chazlett>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Chess Hazlett 2023-08-30 21:13:35 UTC

borgbackup is an opensource, deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. A flaw in the cryptographic authentication scheme in borgbackup allowed an attacker to fake archives and potentially indirectly cause backup data loss in the repository. The attack requires an attacker to be able to: 1. insert files (with no additional headers) into backups and 2. gain write access to the repository. This vulnerability does not disclose plaintext to the attacker, nor does it affect the authenticity of existing archives. Creating plausible fake archives may be feasible for empty or small archives, but is unlikely for large archives. The issue has been fixed in borgbackup 1.2.5. Users are advised to upgrade. Additionally to installing the fixed code, users must follow the upgrade procedure as documented in the change log. Data loss after being attacked can be avoided by reviewing the archives (timestamp and contents valid and as expected) after any "borg check --repair" and before "borg prune". There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/1.2.5-cvedocs/docs/changes.rst#pre-125-archives-spoofing-vulnerability-cve-2023-36811
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/3eb070191da10c2d3f7bc6484cf3d51c3045f884
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/security/advisories/GHSA-8fjr-hghr-4m99

Comment 1 Chess Hazlett 2023-08-30 21:13:50 UTC

Created borgbackup tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2236304]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2236305]