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GHSA-425C-CCF3-3JRR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2019-11-15 23:10 – Updated: 2021-01-08 19:57

Summary

Critical severity vulnerability that affects slpjs

Details

Validator parsing discrepancy due to string encoding

Impact

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus.

Patches

All versions > 0.21.3 are patched.

Workarounds

Upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.

References

The bug was located and fixed here.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in the slpjs repo * Email us at info@slp.cash

Severity

5.7 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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  "modified": "2021-01-08T19:57:59Z",
  "published": "2019-11-15T23:10:35Z",
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CVE-2019-16762 (GCVE-0-2019-16762)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-15 23:10 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:24

Title

Validator parsing discrepancy due to string encoding in NPM slpjs

Summary

Severity

5.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/simpleledger/slpjs/security/ad…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/simpleledger/slpjs/commit/ac88…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
simpleledger	slpjs	Affected: < 0.21.4 , < 0.21.4 (custom)

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GHSA-425C-CCF3-3JRR

Validator parsing discrepancy due to string encoding

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CVE-2019-16762 (GCVE-0-2019-16762)

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