CVE-2020-4045

HIGH

ssb-db 20.0.0 - Unauthenticated Exposure of Sensitive Information via get() Method

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 [email protected] 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.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0129
EPSS Percentile 66.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (2)
npm/ssb-db 20.0.0 - 20.0.1npm
scuttlebutt/ssb-db 20.0.0
Published Jun 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026