Submission Details
Severity:
The password set by PasswordStore::setPassword() can be viewed by anyone.
Summary
When a txn. is made on blockchain, it can be viewed by anyone, so anyone can see the password from the argument of the function call.
Vulnerability Details
Anyone can see the user's set password
Impact
Other people can exploit the user by getting access to user's accounts.
Tools Used
Manual Review
Recommendations
To encrypt the password with the user's public key, so that only the user can decrypt it with their private key.
Updates
Lead Judging Commences
inallhonesty
about 2 years ago
inallhonesty about 2 years ago
Submission Judgement Published Assigned finding tags:
finding-anyone-can-read-storage
Private functions and state variables are only visible for the contract they are defined in and not in derived contracts. In this case private doesn't mean secret/confidential
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