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CVE-2021-32738

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.5) in stellar js-stellar-sdk. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in stellar-sdk 8.2.3.

js-stellar-sdk is a Javascript library for communicating with a Stellar Horizon server. The `Utils.readChallengeTx` function used in SEP-10 Stellar Web Authentication states in its function documentation that it reads and validates the challenge transaction including verifying that the `serverAccountID` has signed the transaction. In js-stellar-sdk before version 8.2.3, the function does not verify that the server has signed the transaction. Applications that also used `Utils.verifyChallengeTxThreshold` or `Utils.verifyChallengeTxSigners` to verify the signatures including the server signature on the challenge transaction are unaffected as those functions verify the server signed the transaction. Applications calling `Utils.readChallengeTx` should update to version 8.2.3, the first version with a patch for this vulnerability, to ensure that the challenge transaction is completely valid and signed by the server creating the challenge transaction.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-347, CWE-287
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-6cgh-hjpw-q3gqnpmstellar-sdk<8.2.38.2.3

References

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