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
2026-03-14T01:44:32.419584Z
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

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
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-347"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23507.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cometbft/tendermint-rs

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/cometbft/tendermint-rs
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.28.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.28.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.28.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.14.0
v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.2
v0.1.3
v0.11.0
v0.12.0
v0.14.1
v0.15.0
v0.16.0
v0.17.0
v0.17.0-rc1
v0.17.0-rc2
v0.17.0-rc3
v0.17.1
v0.18.0
v0.18.1
v0.19.0
v0.20.0
v0.21.0
v0.22.0
v0.23.0
v0.23.0-internal
v0.23.1
v0.23.2
v0.23.3
v0.23.5
v0.23.6
v0.23.7
v0.23.8
v0.23.8-pre.1
v0.25.0
v0.26.0
v0.27.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23507.json"

Git / github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.28.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.14.0
v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.2
v0.1.3
v0.11.0
v0.12.0
v0.14.1
v0.15.0
v0.16.0
v0.17.0
v0.17.0-rc1
v0.17.0-rc2
v0.17.0-rc3
v0.17.1
v0.18.0
v0.18.1
v0.19.0
v0.20.0
v0.21.0
v0.22.0
v0.23.0
v0.23.0-internal
v0.23.1
v0.23.2
v0.23.3
v0.23.5
v0.23.6
v0.23.7
v0.23.8
v0.23.8-pre.1
v0.25.0
v0.26.0
v0.27.0
v0.28.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23507.json"