CVE-2022-23507

Tendermint is a high-performance blockchain consensus engine for Byzantine fault tolerant applications. Versions prior to 0.28.0 contain a potential attack via Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature, affecting anyone using the tendermint-light-client and related packages to perform light client verification (e.g. IBC-rs, Hermes). The light client does not check that the chain IDs of the trusted and untrusted headers match, resulting in a possible attack vector where someone who finds a header from an untrusted chain that satisfies all other verification conditions (e.g. enough overlapping validator signatures) could fool a light client. The attack vector is currently theoretical, and no proof-of-concept exists yet to exploit it on live networks. This issue is patched in version 0.28.0. There are no workarounds.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client-js_project:tendermint-light-client-js:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client-verifier_project:tendermint-light-client-verifier:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client_project:tendermint-light-client:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*:*

History

20 Dec 2022, 16:14

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References (MISC) https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-xqqc-c5gw-c5r5 - (MISC) https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-xqqc-c5gw-c5r5 - Third Party Advisory
First Time Tendermint-light-client-js Project tendermint-light-client-js
Tendermint-light-client-js Project
Tendermint-light-client Project tendermint-light-client
Tendermint-light-client Project
Tendermint-light-client-verifier Project tendermint-light-client-verifier
Tendermint-light-client-verifier Project
CPE cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client_project:tendermint-light-client:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client-js_project:tendermint-light-client-js:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client-verifier_project:tendermint-light-client-verifier:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.5

15 Dec 2022, 19:56

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2022-12-15 19:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:48


NVD link : CVE-2022-23507

Mitre link : CVE-2022-23507

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-23507


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Products Affected

tendermint-light-client_project

  • tendermint-light-client

tendermint-light-client-verifier_project

  • tendermint-light-client-verifier

tendermint-light-client-js_project

  • tendermint-light-client-js
CWE
CWE-347

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature