Improper Authentication Affecting stellar-sdk package, versions <8.2.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-STELLARSDK-1316188
  • published4 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Jul 2021
  • creditLeigh McCulloch

Introduced: 2 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-32738  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade stellar-sdk to version 8.2.3 or higher.

Overview

stellar-sdk is a stellar-sdk is a library for working with the Stellar Horizon server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication due to missing serverAccountID signature verification in Utils.readChallengeTx.

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