RUSTSEC-2022-0009

Failure to verify the public key of a SignedEnvelope against the PeerId in a PeerRecord

Reported

February 7, 2022

Issued

February 7, 2022 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

libp2p-core (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

crypto-failure

Aliases

GHSA-wc36-xgcc-jwpr

Patched

^0.30.2
>=0.31.1

Unaffected

<0.30.0-rc.1

Affected Functions

Version

libp2p_core::PeerRecord::from_signed_envelope

>=0.30.0-rc.1

Description

Affected versions of this crate did not check that the public key the signature was created with matches the peer ID of the peer record. Any combination was considered valid.

This allows an attacker to republish an existing PeerRecord with a different PeerId.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.