CVE-2022-23507: Tendermint light client verification not taking into account chain ID
Anyone using the tendermint-light-client
and related packages to perform light client verification (e.g. IBC-rs, Hermes).
At present, the light client does not check that the chain IDs of the trusted and untrusted headers match, resulting in a possible attack vector where someone who finds a header from an untrusted chain that satisfies all other verification conditions (e.g. enough overlapping validator signatures) could fool a light client.
The attack vector is currently theoretical, and no proof-of-concept exists yet to exploit it on live networks.
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