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CVE-2023-42806

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.5) in iohk hydra. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Hydra is the layer-two scalability solution for Cardano. Prior to version 0.13.0, not signing and verifying `$\mathsf{cid}$` allows an attacker (which must be a participant of this head) to use a snapshot from an old head instance with the same participants to close the head or contest the state with it. This can lead to an incorrect distribution of value (= value extraction attack; hard, but possible) or prevent the head to finalize because the value available is not consistent with the closed utxo state (= denial of service; easy). A patch is planned for version 0.13.0. As a workaround, rotate keys between heads so not to re-use keys and not result in the same multi-signature participants.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

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

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