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GHSA-p94w-42g3-f7h4
No affected components available
Impact
The verifyVerifiableCredential() method check the cryptographic integrity of the Verifiable Credential, but it does not check if the credential.issuer DID matches the signer of the credential.
The verifier is impacted by this vulnerability.
Patches
Patch will be available in version 0.2.2.
Workarounds
In case you trust certain issuers for certain credentials as a verifier, trust the issuer's public key from the credential.proof.verificationMethod field.
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Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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