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Siwe Authentication

SIWE implementations that verify signature + nonce + chainId but omit `domain` / `uri.host` validation are vulnerable to cross-origin phishing replay — an attacker fetches a real nonce, phishes a victim into signing for an attacker-controlled origin, then replays the signature to the real service to bind attacker-controlled state to the victim's Web3 identity.

Evidence

In service/src/api/register.ts, parseSiweMessage was called and chainId, nonce expiry, and cryptographic signature were all verified — but siweFields.domain was never asserted against the server's expected origin. A phishing site could fetch a fresh nonce from GET /v1/siwe/nonce (public), present a SIWE prompt for phish.example to the victim, then POST the resulting signature to the real API with attacker-controlled tradingWallet data. The server would accept it because ownership was proven on-chain. Fixed by extracting host[:port] from each CORS_ORIGINS entry into a siweAllowedDomains allowlist and asserting siweFields.domain is in that list before proceeding.

Context

Applies to any backend that uses SIWE (EIP-4361) for authentication and then takes a side-effecting action (linking wallets, binding state) based on the proven address. The vulnerability exists even when nonce replay protection is correctly implemented — nonces are single-use but not origin-bound. The attack requires a 10-minute window (typical nonce TTL) and a realistic phishing scenario. Fix: after parseSiweMessage, assert siweFields.domain (and siweFields.uri host if present) against a server-side allowlist derived from the application's known frontend origins.

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Usage stats
73 uses0/090%
Used 73 times
Publisher
9595DDB
Published May 13, 2026
Tags
siweeip-4361authenticationweb3phishingnoncedomain-validationdefi