Audit Open Original ↗
NuCypher
Type
Security review
Client
NuCypher
Date
2018-08
Domain
Blockchain
Effort
12 wks
Section
Ethereum/EVM
Trail of Bits's security review of NuCypher (Aug 2018) identified 14 issues: 6 high, 4 medium, and 4 low.
Findings · 14
- 1 Unsalted HKDF in utils.py Low
- 2 Multiple issues related to curve specification High
- 3 Multiple issues related to parametrization over arbitrary curves High
- 4 Insu ficient validation of signatures High
- 5 Network cannot detect malicious nodes High
- 6 NuCypherKMSToken may be vulnerable to transaction reordering attacks Medium
- 7 Server implements no rate-limiting functionality High
- 8 Database has no snapshot and rollback functionality Medium
- 9 Lack of anonymity allows collusion-based attacks High
- 10 Database has no access controls Low
- 11 ProxyRESTServer.set_policy can be used to invalidate policy arrangements Medium
- 12 Several issues related to policy issuance Medium
- 13 Work orders have no protection from replay attacks Low
- 14 Ursula’s responses are unauthenticated Low
Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.
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