A vulnerability has been found in Solana Pay up to 0.2.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function validateTransfer of the component Transaction Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a control flow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-670. The code contains a control flow path that does not reflect the algorithm that the path is intended to implement, leading to incorrect behavior any time this path is navigated. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Solana Pay is a protocol and set of reference implementations that enable developers to incorporate decentralized payments into their apps and services. When a Solana Pay transaction is located using a reference key, it may be checked to represent a transfer of the desired amount to the recipient, using the supplied `validateTransfer` function. An edge case regarding this mechanism could cause the validation logic to validate multiple transfers. This issue has been patched as of version `0.2.1`. Users of the Solana Pay SDK should upgrade to it. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

The weakness was shared 08/02/2022 as GHSA-j47c-j42c-mwqq. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-35917 since 07/15/2022. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 0.2.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch ac6ce0d0a81137700874a8bf5a7caac3be999fad is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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