A vulnerability was found in bcoin 2.2.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file \vendor\faye-websocket.js. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use of weak hash vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-328. The product uses an algorithm that produces a digest (output value) that does not meet security expectations for a hash function that allows an adversary to reasonably determine the original input (preimage attack), find another input that can produce the same hash (2nd preimage attack), or find multiple inputs that evaluate to the same hash (birthday attack). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in bcoin-org bcoin version 2.2.0, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via weak hashing algorithms in the component \vendor\faye-websocket.js.

The weakness was published 12/21/2023 as 1174. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-50475 since 12/11/2023. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1600.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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