Hydra is the layer-two scalability solution for Cardano. Prior to version 0.13.0, not signing and verifying `$\mathsf{cid}$` allows an attacker (which must be a participant of this head) to use a snapshot from an old head instance with the same participants to close the head or contest the state with it. This can lead to an incorrect distribution of value (= value extraction attack; hard, but possible) or prevent the head to finalize because the value available is not consistent with the closed utxo state (= denial of service; easy). A patch is planned for version 0.13.0. As a workaround, rotate keys between heads so not to re-use keys and not result in the same multi-signature participants.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-09-21T16:45:34.742Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T19:30:24.694Z

Reserved: 2023-09-14T16:13:33.307Z

Link: CVE-2023-42806

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-09-21T17:15:23.583

Modified: 2023-09-26T14:41:00.217

Link: CVE-2023-42806

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