Vulnerability CVE-2019-16992


Published: 2019-09-29   Modified: 2019-09-30

Description:
The Keybase app 2.13.2 for iOS provides potentially insufficient notice that it is employing a user's private key to sign a certain cryptocurrency attestation (that an address at keybase.io can be used for Stellar payments to the user), which might be incompatible with a user's personal position on the semantics of an attestation.

Type:

CWE-347

(Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Keybase -> Keybase 

 References:
https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/3583
https://sneak.berlin/20190929/keybase-backdoor/

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