CVE-2024-1631

agent-js: Insecure Key Generation in `Ed25519KeyIdentity.generate`

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Feb 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 16, 2024
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NDfinity

Weaknesses

  • CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values

Affected Products

ProductVersions
agent-jsInternet Computer
  • v0.20.0-beta.0 to before v1.0.1Affected

References

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