A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in slpjs up to 0.21.3 on npm (NPM Package). This affects an unknown functionality of the component Bitcoin Script. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. Affected users can upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.

The weakness was shared 11/15/2019 (GitHub Repository). It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-16762 since 09/24/2019. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.21.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• slpjs

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• 0.21.0
• 0.21.1
• 0.21.2
• 0.21.3

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• open-source

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