CVE-2021-21405 – github.com/filecoin-project/lotus

Package

Manager: go
Name: github.com/filecoin-project/lotus
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <1.5.0

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00172 pctl0.39004

Details

BLS Signature "Malleability" ### Impact 1. BLS signature validation in lotus uses blst library method VerifyCompressed. This method accepts signatures in 2 forms - "serialized", and "compressed", meaning that BLS signatures can be provided as either of 2 unique byte arrays. 2. Lotus block validation functions perform a uniqueness check on provided blocks. Two blocks are considered distinct if the CIDs of their blockheader do not match. The CID method for blockheader includes the BlockSig of the block. The result of these issues is that it would be possible to punish miners for valid blocks, as there are two different valid block CIDs available for each block, even though this must be unique. ### Patches By switching from the go based `blst` bindings over to the bindings in `filecoin-ffi`, the code paths now ensure that all signatures are compressed by size and the way they are deserialized. This happened in https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5393 ### References - Original POC: https://gist.github.com/wadeAlexC/2490d522e81a796af9efcad1686e6754

Metadata

Created: 2021-05-21T16:23:43Z
Modified: 2021-05-20T20:51:00Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-4g52-pqcj-phvh/GHSA-4g52-pqcj-phvh.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-347"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-4g52-pqcj-phvh
Finding: F204
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