Failure to validate signature during handshake

Description

@chainsafe/libp2p-noise before 4.1.2 and 5.0.3 was not correctly validating signatures during the handshake process. This may allow a man-in-the-middle to pose as other peers and get those peers banned.

Recommendation

Update the @chainsafe/libp2p-noise package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.3

  < 4.1.2**

• Patched version(s): **5.0.3

  4.1.2**

References

• GHSA-j3ff-xp6c-6gcc
• CVE-2022-24759
• CWE-347
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A2
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

@chainsafe/libp2p-noise