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go-ipld-prime/codec/json may panic if asked to encode bytes

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 3, 2023 in ipld/go-ipld-prime • Updated Aug 29, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime (Go)

Affected versions

< 0.19.0

Patched versions

0.19.0

Description

go-ipld-prime is a series of Go interfaces for manipulating IPLD data and a Go module that contains the go-ipld-prime/codec/json codec.

Impact

Encoding data which contains a Bytes kind Node will pass a Bytes token to the JSON encoder which will panic as it doesn't expect to receive Bytes tokens. Such an encoding should be treated as an error, as plain JSON should not be able to encode Bytes.

This only impacts uses of the "json" codec, "dag-json" is not impacted. Use of "json" as a decoder is not impacted.

Patches

Fixed in v0.19.0.

Workarounds

Prefer the "dag-json" codec which has the ability to encode bytes.

References

See fix in #472

References

@rvagg rvagg published to ipld/go-ipld-prime Jan 3, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 4, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 5, 2023
Reviewed Jan 5, 2023
Last updated Aug 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-22460

GHSA ID

GHSA-c653-6hhg-9x92

Source code

Credits

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