CVE-2023-33983

high

Description

The Introduction Client in Briar through 1.5.3 does not implement out-of-band verification for the public keys of introducees. An introducer can launch man-in-the-middle attacks against later private communication between two introduced parties.

References

https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/report_YuanmingSong.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-05-24

Updated: 2023-06-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N