CVE-2023-42806

Summary

CVECVE-2023-42806
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-21 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-26 14:41:00 UTC
DescriptionHydra is the layer-two scalability solution for Cardano. Prior to version 0.13.0, not signing and verifying `$\mathsf{cid}$` allows an attacker (which must be a participant of this head) to use a snapshot from an old head instance with the same participants to close the head or contest the state with it. This can lead to an incorrect distribution of value (= value extraction attack; hard, but possible) or prevent the head to finalize because the value available is not consistent with the closed utxo state (= denial of service; easy). A patch is planned for version 0.13.0. As a workaround, rotate keys between heads so not to re-use keys and not result in the same multi-signature participants.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-347

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Iohk Hydra All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/blob/ec6c7a2ab651462228475d0b34264e9a18... MISC github.com
github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/blob/ec6c7a2ab651462228475d0b34264e9a18... MISC github.com
github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/blob/ec6c7a2ab651462228475d0b34264e9a18... MISC github.com
Snapshot signature not including HeadID will allow replay attacks · Advisory · input-output-hk/hydra · GitHub MISC github.com
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