GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-4g52-pqcj-phvh BLS Signature "Malleability"

MEDIUM Published 2021-05-21 Modified 2021-05-20 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-21405
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/filecoin-project/lotus
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-347
Reviewed
2021-05-20

Affected packages

• Go github.com/filecoin-project/lotus: < 1.5.0 → fixed in 1.5.0

Description

Impact 1. BLS signature validation in lotus uses blst library method VerifyCompressed. This method accepts signatures in 2 forms - "serialized", and "compressed", meaning that BLS signatures can be provided as either of 2 unique byte arrays. 2. Lotus block validation functions perform a uniqueness check on provided blocks. Two blocks are considered distinct if the CIDs of their blockheader do not match. The CID method for blockheader includes the BlockSig of the block. The result of these issues is that it would be possible to punish miners for valid blocks, as there are two different valid block CIDs available for each block, even though this must be unique. Patches By switching from the go based `blst` bindings over to the bindings in `filecoin-ffi`, the code paths now ensure that all signatures are compressed by size and the way they are deserialized. This happened in https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5393 References • Original POC: https://gist.github.com/wadeAlexC/2490d522e81a796af9efcad1686e6754

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-21405 Lotus is an Implementation of the Filecoin protocol written in Go. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References