CVE-2021-21405

Lotus is an Implementation of the Filecoin protocol written in Go. BLS signature validation in lotus uses blst library method VerifyCompressed. This method accepts signatures in 2 forms: "serialized", and "compressed", meaning that BLS signatures can be provided as either of 2 unique byte arrays. Lotus block validation functions perform a uniqueness check on provided blocks. Two blocks are considered distinct if the CIDs of their blockheader do not match. The CID method for blockheader includes the BlockSig of the block. The result of these issues is that it would be possible to punish miners for valid blocks, as there are two different valid block CIDs available for each block, even though this must be unique. By switching from the go based `blst` bindings over to the bindings in `filecoin-ffi`, the code paths now ensure that all signatures are compressed by size and the way they are deserialized. This happened in https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5393.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:filecoin:lotus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

23 Apr 2021, 14:40

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:a:filecoin:lotus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 5.0
v3 : 7.5
References (MISC) https://gist.github.com/wadeAlexC/2490d522e81a796af9efcad1686e6754 - (MISC) https://gist.github.com/wadeAlexC/2490d522e81a796af9efcad1686e6754 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory
References (CONFIRM) https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/security/advisories/GHSA-4g52-pqcj-phvh - (CONFIRM) https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/security/advisories/GHSA-4g52-pqcj-phvh - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5393 - (MISC) https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5393 - Patch, Third Party Advisory

15 Apr 2021, 22:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-04-15 22:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-21405

Mitre link : CVE-2021-21405

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-21405


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Products Affected

filecoin

  • lotus
CWE
CWE-347

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature