Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.5 CVE-2020-4045 EUVD-2020-0501GHSA-mpgr-2cx9-327h

Information disclosure in SSB-DB

Published Jun 11, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ssbc SSB-DB = 20.0.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm ssb-db >= 20.0.0, < 20.0.1 20.0.1 GHSA-mpgr-2cx9-327h

References