CVE-2025-1057: Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
A flaw was found in Keylime, a remote attestation solution, where strict type checking introduced in version 7.12.0 prevents the registrar from reading database entries created by previous versions, for example, 7.11.0. Specifically, older versions store agent registration data as bytes, whereas the updated registrar expects str. This issue leads to an exception when processing agent registration requests, causing the agent to fail.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability involves an incorrect type conversion or cast in Keylime, a remote attestation solution. Starting from version 7.12.0, strict type checking was introduced that expects agent registration data as strings. However, previous versions like 7.11.0 stored this data as bytes. This mismatch causes the registrar component to throw exceptions when processing agent registration requests from older database entries, resulting in agent registration failures.
Potential Impact
The impact is limited to availability, as the exception prevents agents from successfully registering. There is no confidentiality or integrity impact reported. The CVSS score of 4.3 reflects a medium severity with network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and only availability impact.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1057 for current remediation guidance. No official fix or patch links are provided in the available data. Users should monitor the vendor advisory for updates and consider workarounds to handle type mismatches if possible.
CVE-2025-1057: Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
Description
A flaw was found in Keylime, a remote attestation solution, where strict type checking introduced in version 7.12.0 prevents the registrar from reading database entries created by previous versions, for example, 7.11.0. Specifically, older versions store agent registration data as bytes, whereas the updated registrar expects str. This issue leads to an exception when processing agent registration requests, causing the agent to fail.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.3medium
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability involves an incorrect type conversion or cast in Keylime, a remote attestation solution. Starting from version 7.12.0, strict type checking was introduced that expects agent registration data as strings. However, previous versions like 7.11.0 stored this data as bytes. This mismatch causes the registrar component to throw exceptions when processing agent registration requests from older database entries, resulting in agent registration failures.
Potential Impact
The impact is limited to availability, as the exception prevents agents from successfully registering. There is no confidentiality or integrity impact reported. The CVSS score of 4.3 reflects a medium severity with network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and only availability impact.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1057 for current remediation guidance. No official fix or patch links are provided in the available data. Users should monitor the vendor advisory for updates and consider workarounds to handle type mismatches if possible.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2025-02-05T09:57:50.746Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1057","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6868be146f40f0eb72a6ac91
Added to database: 07/05/2025, 05:54:28 UTC
Last enriched: 07/02/2026, 22:16:30 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC
Views: 354
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