CVE-2019-16992 (GCVE-0-2019-16992)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-09-29 23:52
Modified
2024-08-05 01:24
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Keybase app 2.13.2 for iOS provides potentially insufficient notice that it is employing a user's private key to sign a certain cryptocurrency attestation (that an address at keybase.io can be used for Stellar payments to the user), which might be incompatible with a user's personal position on the semantics of an attestation.
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