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Lack of proper validation of server UUID can be used by the server to trick the client to accept invalid proofs

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 21, 2022 in codenotary/immudb • Updated Feb 14, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/codenotary/immudb (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.4.1

Patched versions

1.4.1

Description

Impact

immudb client SDKs use server's UUID to distinguish between different server instance so that the client can connect to different immudb instances and keep the state for multiple servers. SDK does not validate this uuid and can accept any value reported by the server. A malicious server can change the reported UUID tricking the client to treat it as a different server thus accepting a state completely irrelevant to the one previously retrieved from the server.

Patches

The following Go SDK versions are not vulnerable:

SDK Version
go 1.4.1

Workarounds

When initializing an immudb client object, a custom state handler can be used to store the state. Providing custom implementation that ignores the server UUID can be used to ensure that even if the server changes the UUID, client will still consider it to be the same server.

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References

@byo byo published to codenotary/immudb Nov 21, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 21, 2022
Reviewed Nov 21, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 22, 2022
Last updated Feb 14, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.062%
(29th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-39199

GHSA ID

GHSA-6cqj-6969-p57x

Source code

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