Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
decred/dcrd
master @ 2a6defd
2
Fixes
1
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
internal/blockchain/validate.go: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: A misconfiguration vulnerability where a limited-privilege RPC user receives administrative rights if admin credentials are left blank, resulting in unauthorized administrative access.
Denial of Service: Incomplete mempool validation rules permitted invalid treasury spends to persist before block connection, allowing potential mempool bloating and resource exhaustion.