CVE-2020-4045CWE-200

Information disclosure in SSB-DB

High · published June 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SSB-DB version 20.0.0 has an information disclosure vulnerability. The get() method is supposed to only decrypt messages when you explicitly ask it to, but there is a bug where it's decrypting any message that it can. This means that it is returning the decrypted content of private messages, which a malicious peer could use to get access to private data. This only affects peers running [email protected] who also have private messages, and is only known to be exploitable if you're also running SSB-OOO (default in SSB-Server), which exposes a thin wrapper around get() to anonymous peers. This is fixed in version 20.0.1. Note that users of SSB-Server verion 16.0.0 should upgrade to 16.0.1 to get the fixed version of SSB-DB.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01281 · 69.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published
2020-06-11T21:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JUN 21:15Z
    Information disclosure in SSB-DB
    cvelistv5