SCA: security update for github.com/binance-chain/tss-lib, github.com/bnb-chain/tss-lib (GHSA-mjqv-xhgm-gx8c)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421711

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- io.finnet tss-lib before 2.0.0 can leak the lambda value of a private key via a timing side-channel attack
because it relies on Go big.Int, which is not constant time for Cmp, modular exponentiation, or modular
inverse. An example leak is in crypto/paillier/paillier.go. (bnb-chain/tss-lib and thorchain/tss are also
affected.) (CVE-2023-26557)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mjqv-xhgm-gx8c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421711

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26557

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26557

cwe: CWE-203