Audit Open Original ↗
Discord DAVE
Type
Security review
Client
Discord
Date
2024-08
Domain
Crypto
Effort
4 wks
Section
Cryptography Reviews
Trail of Bits's security review of Discord (Aug 2024) identified 11 issues: 4 high, 5 medium, 1 low, and 1 informational.
Findings · 11
- 1 Commit spam could prevent group updates Medium
- 2 Commit leaf nodes are not validated by the mlspp library Medium
- 3 The mlspp library does not validate key package lifetimes Informational
- 4 Web client may allow a malicious server to conduct a machine-in-the-middle attack on the session High
- 5 Committing members may fail to send Welcome messages Medium
- 6 Users could decrypt messages after being removed from the call UI High
- 7 Key fingerprint verification is vulnerable to partial preimage attacks Medium
- 8 Abuse reporting mechanism is vulnerable to message forgery Medium
- 9 DAVE’s media encryption provides weakened forward secrecy guarantees Low
- 10 The protocol may fail to encrypt AV1-encoded media frames High
- 11 Video frame header length and header data are not authenticated High
Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.
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