CVE-2019-16762

Validator parsing discrepancy due to string encoding in NPM slpjs

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Nov 15, 2019
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 24, 2019

Description

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. Affected users can upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
slpjssimpleledger	< 0.21.4 to before 0.21.4Affected

References

https://github.com/simpleledger/slpjs/security/advisories/GHSA-425c-ccf3-3jrr
https://github.com/simpleledger/slpjs/commit/ac8809b42e47790a6f0205991b36f2699ed10c84#diff-fe58606994c412ba56a65141a7aa4a62L701

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