Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
ssvlabs/ssv
main @ a1bcd46
47
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
51.4%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 23 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
operator/validator: most-fixed (5 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
31 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: The consensus engine has historically suffered from critical bypasses where signature verification was missing or bypassed in the QBFT/BFT controllers. Senders of malicious consensus proposals could subvert protocol rules if verification loops fail to wire correctly.
Auth Bypass: Validator key managers are highly sensitive to race conditions and out-of-order execution during slashing protection checks. Failures in locking or updating the high watermarks for slots and epochs directly expose validators to slashing penalties on the beacon chain.
Cryptographic Issues: Early iterations persisted sensitive private key fragments and validator shares to databases in plaintext, or derived keys using weak cryptographic primitives. These patterns expose the secret shares to host-compromise extraction.