Audit Open Original ↗
NEAR One MPC Chain Signatures
Type
Security review
Client
NEAR One
Date
2025-03
Domain
Crypto
Effort
6 wks
Section
Cryptography Reviews
Trail of Bits's security review of NEAR One (Mar 2025) identified 15 issues: 7 medium, 2 low, and 6 informational.
Findings · 15
- 1 Unique IDs from other participants are not validated Medium
- 2 The node uses command-line arguments to pass secrets to the application Medium
- 3 Outdated dependencies with security advisories Informational
- 4 Risk of ciphertext swapping attack on database storage Informational
- 5 Hash function used as key derivation function Informational
- 6 P2P protocol implementation is vulnerable to identity misbinding Medium
- 7 Skipping certificate verification introduces nontrivial modifications to TLS Informational
- 8 Unchecked buffer lengths may enable resource exhaustion Medium
- 9 TLS listener thread does not time out Medium
- 10 Database encryption is vulnerable to nonce reuse Medium
- 11 Insufficient test coverage Medium
- 12 Potential credential persistence in artifacts Informational
- 13 Unpinned external GitHub CI/CD action versions Low
- 14 Docker release action is vulnerable to cache poisoning Low
- 15 The P2P networking implementation does not enforce TLS 1.3 Informational
Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.
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