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

Related Issues

• Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in `node-forge` (GHSA-2r2c-g63r-vccr) - CVE-2022-24773
• secp256k1-js implements ECDSA without required r and s validation, leading to signature forgery - CVE-2022-41340
• JWS and JWT signature validation vulnerability with special characters - CVE-2022-25898
• Svelte vulnerable to XSS when using objects during server-side rendering - CVE-2022-25875

Tags:

npm

@chainsafe/libp2p-noise