Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity through a trusted signer-asserted timestamp in the getSignatureTime method of the S/MIME validator, which returns the CMS signingTime signed attribute and passes it to PKIXCertPathReviewer...

Users can grief reward distribution

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Users can grief reward distributions by spending dust Proof of Concept If a reward is targeted for an epoch in the past, a user can front-run the txn in the mempool and call addRewardToEpoch with a dust amount at an epoch after the one in question. This...

Google Chrome Bans Chinese SSL Certificate Authorities WoSign and StartCom

As a punishment announced last October, Google will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificate authorities WoSign and its subsidiary StartCom with the launch of Chrome 61 for not maintaining the "high standards expected of CAs." The move came after Google was notified by GitHub's security team on August...

Google to Distrust WoSign, StartCom Certs in 2017

Google announced Monday that when it ships Chrome 56 in January 2017 the browser will distrust certificates issued by Chinese certificate authoritiesWoSign and StartCom that have made headlines over the past month. The move was somewhat expected after Mozilla announced last week the company would...