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Pin the expected Sigstore signer instead of trusting the manifest - #118
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check_sigstore_bundle took sigstore_identity and sigstore_identity_provider from ovllm_manifest.json and handed them to model_signing as the values to verify against. Both sides of the comparison came from the artifact under test, so the check only asked whether a bundle was signed by whoever the artifact claimed had signed it, which is always true. Tamper with the weights, re-run prepare-publish so every hash describes the tampered file, sign with your own identity and write it into the manifest, and ovllm verify reports VERDICT: GREEN with nothing skipped. Resolve the expected signer out of band instead: --identity / --identity-provider, then OVLLM_EXPECTED_IDENTITY, then the repository's publish workflow. A signer that does not match is FAIL before model_signing runs, including under --allow-unsigned, which only ever covered a bundle that is absent entirely. The publish workflow now feeds the identity it signed with into its own verify step, so a bundle produced under an unexpected OIDC subject fails the release gate rather than being read back out of the manifest it just wrote.
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🟠 Major · Fail when a present bundle lacks signer metadata. · verifier.py:229
src/verifier.py:229
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CWE: CWE-347Fail when a present bundle lacks signer metadata.
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model.sigexists but the artifact manifest omits either signer field, this branch returnsSKIPunder--allow-unsigned.SKIPis accepted byCheckResult.ok, so verification succeeds without callingmodel_signing. ReserveSKIPfor an absent bundle and returnFAILfor incomplete signer metadata.Proposed fix
if not identity or not provider: - status = SKIP if allow_unsigned else FAIL return CheckResult( "sigstore_bundle", - status, + FAIL, "signature present, but manifest lacks sigstore_identity/provider", )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/verifier.py`:
- Line 200: Update _identity_is_trusted to validate that a truthy
sigstore_identity is a string before calling startswith; non-string values must
produce a failing CheckResult rather than raising AttributeError. Add a
regression test covering malformed manifest identity values.
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- Line 229: Update the signer metadata validation around the identity/provider
check so a present signature bundle with either missing manifest field always
returns FAIL. Reserve SKIP for the absent-bundle path, and keep the existing
CheckResult message while removing the allow_unsigned-dependent status.
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Two gaps on the same branch, both raised in review. A bundle sitting next to a manifest with no sigstore_identity returned SKIP under --allow-unsigned, and SKIP counts as ok, so verification finished without model_signing ever running. That flag is for an artifact that was never signed; a signature with nothing to check it against is not the same thing and is now red. The same branch only tested the fields for truthiness, so a manifest holding a number where the identity should be reached _identity_is_trusted and blew up on startswith. The CLI caught it and still printed RED, but through a traceback rather than a check result. Both fields are now required to be non-empty strings before anything downstream touches them.
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i folded them into one check rather than two, since they're really the same |
Both files quoted the old "manifest lacks sigstore_identity/provider" wording, which the verifier no longer prints, so anyone searching for the message they actually saw found nothing. Beyond the wording, neither file said where the expected signer comes from. That is the part worth knowing: it is pinned by the verifier rather than read from the manifest, so a model published from a fork's workflow is red until its identity is passed with --identity. Both troubleshooting sections now cover that case, and the README explains --identity-provider and the two environment variables alongside it.
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I was reading through
check_sigstore_bundleand noticed it pulls the expected signer straight out of the manifest:But
ovllm_manifest.jsonlives inside the directory we're verifying, so both sides of that comparison come from the artifact. We end up asking model_signing "was this signed by whoever the artifact says signed it", and the answer is yes every time.That matters because it's the only check we have that says anything about who published a model. The four hash checks all compare the weights against numbers in the same manifest, so they tell us the bytes are internally consistent, not where they came from.
What an attacker does
Change the weights, run
prepare-publishagain so the hashes describe the new file, sign it with your own Sigstore identity, write that identity into the manifest, upload. Thenovllm verify <ref>with no flags:Every check passes honestly. The bundle is a genuine Sigstore signature with a real transparency log entry. It's just from the wrong person and we never asked.
Same artifact after this patch:
What I changed
The expected signer now comes from outside the artifact.
--identity/--identity-providerfirst, thenOVLLM_EXPECTED_IDENTITY, then the publish workflow subject that README already documents under "Publish Loop".I used a prefix check rather than a regex since nobody else can own
AOSSIE-Org/OpenVerifiableLLM, so the prefix is the whole question. Keepsreout of the imports and prints readably in the report.A wrong signer is red even with
--allow-unsigned. That flag says "treat a missing bundle as SKIP", and a bundle signed by a stranger seems worse than no bundle, so I left it out of that escape hatch. Easy to change if you disagree.I also wired
$SIGSTORE_IDENTITYinto the workflow's own verify step. It was already sitting in the job env two steps up and wasn't being used, which meant the release gate re-read the identity from the manifestsignhad just written to it. So it couldn't catch a wrong OIDC subject, which is the exact thing README:92 and RUNBOOK:147 tell people to watch for.Heads up, this breaks something
Models signed by a fork's workflow will now come back RED unless you pass the identity:
That's the intended behaviour but I realise it's a behaviour change on anything already published outside this repo's workflow. If you'd rather not break those in one go I'm happy to make it warn by default and put the hard failure behind a flag.
Tests
test_sigstore_verify_ignores_signature_filewas asserting thatperson@example.comcomes back PASS, so it was locking in the bug. I updated it to pass an explicit expected identity and added aSigstoreIdentityTestsclass covering the self-named signer, a fork's workflow, a wrong provider, the--identityoverride, and that--allow-unsignedstill skips a genuinely missing bundle. No torch needed so it runs anywhere.Locally:
test_verifier.pyandtest_artifacts.pygive 23 passed,reproducibility.pyreports SUITE: PASS, and the chain audit smoke passes. I also ran the eleven test files that import verifier/publish/ovllm/artifacts on main and on this branch and got identical failure sets.README and RUNBOOK are updated in the last commit. Both were quoting the old
manifest lacks sigstore_identity/providerwording, which the verifier no longer prints, and neither said where the expected signer comes from. The troubleshooting sections now cover the fork case and the--identityoverride.Summary by CodeRabbit
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