CVE-2022-23507
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23507
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23507.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-23507
- Aliases
- Published
- 2022-12-15T00:01:04.540Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-15T01:48:56.245364571Z
- Severity
-
- 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Light client verification not taking into account chain ID
- Details
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Tendermint is a high-performance blockchain consensus engine for Byzantine fault tolerant applications. Versions prior to 0.28.0 contain a potential attack via Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature, affecting anyone using the tendermint-light-client and related packages to perform light client verification (e.g. IBC-rs, Hermes). The light client does not check that the chain IDs of the trusted and untrusted headers match, resulting in a possible attack vector where someone who finds a header from an untrusted chain that satisfies all other verification conditions (e.g. enough overlapping validator signatures) could fool a light client. The attack vector is currently theoretical, and no proof-of-concept exists yet to exploit it on live networks. This issue is patched in version 0.28.0. There are no workarounds.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23507.json", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-347" ], "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M" }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/cometbft/tendermint-rs
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/cometbft/tendermint-rs
- Events
- Database specific
{ "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0.28.0" }, { "last_affected": "0.28.0" }, { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "0.28.0" } ], "source": [ "AFFECTED_FIELD", "CPE_RANGE" ], "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client-js_project:tendermint-light-client-js:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client-verifier_project:tendermint-light-client-verifier:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:tendermint-light-client_project:tendermint-light-client:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*:*" ] }