CVE-2023-40580

Freighter mnemonic phrase may be accessed by Javascript through a private API

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: Aug 25, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Aug 16, 2023

Description

Freighter is a Stellar chrome extension. It may be possible for a malicious website to access the recovery mnemonic phrase when the Freighter wallet is unlocked. This vulnerability impacts access control to the mnemonic recovery phrase. This issue was patched in version 5.3.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

Product	Versions
freighterstellar	< 5.3.1Affected

References

https://github.com/stellar/freighter/security/advisories/GHSA-vqr6-hwg2-775w
https://github.com/stellar/freighter/pull/948
https://github.com/stellar/freighter/commit/81f78ba008c41ce631a3d0f9e4449f4bbd90baee

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