Advisories for Cargo/Nimiq-Primitives package

A remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in MerkleRadixTrie::put_chunk allows any state-sync peer to crash any node performing state synchronization (freshly joining nodes and recovering nodes). A malicious peer can respond to a RequestChunk with a ResponseChunk::Chunk whose first TrieItem.key is the empty (ROOT) key. The chunk passes sorting, range, and Merkle-proof validation, but when put_raw tries to store a value at the root node, it calls TrieNode::put_value(…).unwrap(), which returns Err(RootCantHaveValue) and …

A logic flaw in BlockInclusionProof::is_block_proven causes the function to return true without performing any cryptographic verification when get_interlink_hops yields an empty hop list. This occurs when the target block is at the election block position immediately preceding the election head's epoch. An attacker providing transaction inclusion proofs can forge a MacroBlock header for that epoch position and have it accepted as "proven" without any hash or signature verification.

An untrusted p2p peer can cause a node to panic by announcing an election macro block whose validators set contains an invalid compressed BLS voting key. Hashing an election macro header hashes validators and reaches Validators::voting_keys(), which calls validator.voting_key.uncompress().unwrap() and panics on invalid bytes.