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CVE-2020-4045 (GCVE-0-2020-4045)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-11 21:15 – Updated: 2024-08-04 07:52
VLAI?
Title
Information disclosure in SSB-DB
Summary
SSB-DB version 20.0.0 has an information disclosure vulnerability. The get() method is supposed to only decrypt messages when you explicitly ask it to, but there is a bug where it's decrypting any message that it can. This means that it is returning the decrypted content of private messages, which a malicious peer could use to get access to private data. This only affects peers running SSB-DB@20.0.0 who also have private messages, and is only known to be exploitable if you're also running SSB-OOO (default in SSB-Server), which exposes a thin wrapper around get() to anonymous peers. This is fixed in version 20.0.1. Note that users of SSB-Server verion 16.0.0 should upgrade to 16.0.1 to get the fixed version of SSB-DB.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
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