CVE-2023-42806

MEDIUM

Hydra < 0.13.0 - Cryptographic Signature Verification Bypass via Unsigned CID

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Hydra is the layer-two scalability solution for Cardano. Prior to version 0.13.0, not signing and verifying `$\mathsf{cid}$` allows an attacker (which must be a participant of this head) to use a snapshot from an old head instance with the same participants to close the head or contest the state with it. This can lead to an incorrect distribution of value (= value extraction attack; hard, but possible) or prevent the head to finalize because the value available is not consistent with the closed utxo state (= denial of service; easy). A patch is planned for version 0.13.0. As a workaround, rotate keys between heads so not to re-use keys and not result in the same multi-signature participants.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 32.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-347
Status published
Products (1)
iohk/hydra < 0.13.0
Published Sep 21, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026