CVE-2022-23507CWE-347

Light client verification not taking into account chain ID

Medium · published December 15, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00316 · 23.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-347 · Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Published
2022-12-15T00:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 DEC 00:01Z
    Light client verification not taking into account chain ID
    cvelistv5