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CVE-2024-1631

However, a recent change broke this guarantee and uses an insecure seed for key pair generation.

CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 0.88%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.88%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Impact: The library offers a function to generate an ed25519 key pair via Ed25519KeyIdentity.generate with an optional param to provide a 32 byte seed value, which will then be used as the secret key. When no seed value is provided, it is expected that the library generates the secret key using secure randomness. However, a recent change broke this guarantee and uses an insecure seed for key pair generation. Since the private key of this identity (535yc-uxytb-gfk7h-tny7p-vjkoe-i4krp-3qmcl-uqfgr-cpgej-yqtjq-rqe) is compromised, one could lose funds associated with the principal on ledgers or lose access to a canister where this principal is the controller.

CVSS 3.1
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.88% probability · 57th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-321, CWE-330
Affected
dfinity/icp-js-core
Source
6b35d637-e00f-4228-858c-b20ad6e1d07b

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.