GMS-2018-2: Identity Spoofing

January 15, 2018

libp2p-secio is not correctly checking the that the PeerId of the DstPeer matched the PeerId that the peer learns through the Crypto Handshake creating a high severity vulnerability as the purpose of SECIO is to authenticate the other Peer.

References

github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p-secio/pull/95

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