Brave's research team has released a report identifying significant security and privacy risks in the blockchain transaction authorization system zkLogin. The report emphasizes that these risks are not solely dependent on the underlying zero-knowledge proof but are heavily reliant on several protocol-level assumptions. These include JWT/JSON parsing, issuer trust policies, issuance context binding, and execution environment integrity.
The report categorizes three main vulnerabilities: the acceptance of malformed JWTs due to lax claim extraction standards, the conversion of short-term authentication credentials into long-term authorization credentials without enforcing issuer/audience/subject/time binding, which could lead to cross-application misuse, particularly in browser environments. The report stresses that these issues are not due to flaws in the cryptographic algorithms themselves.
Brave Research Highlights Security Risks in zkLogin Authorization System
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