Improper Authentication Affecting stellar-sdk package, versions <8.2.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-STELLARSDK-1316188
  • published 4 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 2 Jul 2021
  • credit Leigh McCulloch

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium