CVE-2022-29219 Information

Description

Lodestar is a TypeScript implementation of the Ethereum Consensus specification. Prior to version 0.36.0 there is a possible consensus split given maliciously-crafted AttesterSlashing or ProposerSlashing being included on-chain. Because the developers represent uint64 values as native javascript numbers there is an issue when those variables with large (greater than 2^53) uint64 values are included on chain. In those cases Lodestar may view valid_AttesterSlashing or ProposerSlashing as invalid due to rounding errors in large number values. This causes a consensus split where Lodestar nodes are forked away from the main network. Similarly Lodestar may consider invalid ProposerSlashing as valid thus including in proposed blocks that will be considered invalid by the network. Version 0.36.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround use BigInt to represent Slot and Epoch values in AttesterSlashing and ProposerSlashing objects. BigInt is too slow to be used in all Slot and Epoch cases so one may carefully use BigInt just where necessary for consensus.

Reference

https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/security/advisories/GHSA-cvj7-5f3c-9vg9 https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/releases/tag/v0.36.0 https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/pull/3977