Cross-chain header acceptance via missing chain-ID check
Published Dec 15, 2022 · Updated Apr 18, 2025
Improper signature verification in Informal Systems tendermint-rs before 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to accept untrusted-chain headers. The light-client verifier omitted the trusted chain ID and therefore never compared it with the untrusted header's chain ID. Exploitation requires a foreign-chain header satisfying every other verification condition, including sufficient overlapping validator signatures; no live-network proof of concept is reported.
Summary
What happened
Improper signature verification in Informal Systems tendermint-rs before 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to accept untrusted-chain headers. The light-client verifier omitted the trusted chain ID and therefore never compared it with the untrusted header's chain ID. Exploitation requires a foreign-chain header satisfying every other verification condition, including sufficient overlapping validator signatures; no live-network proof of concept is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-23507
- Published
- Dec 15, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 18, 2025
- Vendor
- Informal Systems
- Product
- tendermint-rs
- Classifications
- CWE-347
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 15, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 18, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0.28.0
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