Identity Spoofing Affecting libp2p-secio package, versions <0.9.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk ID npm:libp2p-secio:20180115
  • published 19 Jan 2018
  • disclosed 15 Jan 2018
  • credit Maciej Krüger

Introduced: 15 Jan 2018

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-290 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

[libp2p-secio] provides a SECIO implementation in JavaScript.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Identity Spoofing. It did not correctly vaidate the that the DstPeer PeerId matched the PeerId that the peer learns through the Crypto Handshake

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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