Zcash, before the Sapling network upgrade (2018-10-28), had a counterfeiting vulnerability. A key-generation process, during evaluation of polynomials related to a to-be-proven statement, produced certain bypass elements. Availability of these elements allowed a cheating prover to bypass a consistency check, and consequently transform the proof of one statement into an ostensibly valid proof of a different statement, thereby breaking the soundness of the proof system. This misled the original Sprout zk-SNARK verifier into accepting the correctness of a transaction.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2019-03-27T01:37:40
Updated: 2024-08-04T20:38:33.429Z
Reserved: 2019-01-29T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-7167
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-03-27T02:29:00.250
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:47:42.300
Link: CVE-2019-7167
Redhat
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