Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
nymtech/nym
develop @ d230cd8
116
Fixes
0
CVEs
CRITICAL
Peak severity
37.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 58 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
gateway: most-fixed (6 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
52 high-severity fixes 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: Bypassing critical cryptographic signature checks in core mixnet smart contract transactions allowed unauthorized node identity registration and state mutation. Developers must ensure validation is never conditionally bypassed on critical execution paths.
Auth Bypass: The lack of double-spending protection and serial number checks for blinded Coconut credentials allowed malicious clients to reuse credentials and bypass bandwidth billing.
Denial of Service: Missing payload length checks during WebSocket request deserialization led to out-of-bounds panics when copying slices, allowing remote attackers to easily crash client nodes.