CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
31.5%
Anyone using the tendermint-light-client
and related packages to perform light client verification (e.g. IBC-rs, Hermes).
At present, the light client does not check that the chain IDs of the trusted and untrusted headers match, resulting in a possible attack vector where someone who finds a header from an untrusted chain that satisfies all other verification conditions (e.g. enough overlapping validator signatures) could fool a light client.
The attack vector is currently theoretical, and no proof-of-concept exists yet to exploit it on live networks.
Users of the light client-related crates can currently upgrade to v0.28.0
.
None