💣 Solana dodges a time bomb! 💥 Bug that allowed minting infinite tokens is fixed 🛠️
🫨 Surprise on the Solana network! 🫨 The Solana Foundation has just extinguished a potentially catastrophic fire: a zero-day vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to create unlimited confidential tokens Token-22 and even steal user funds. Yes, as you will read... infinite coins! ♾️💰
The error was detected on April 16 and affected two key pieces of its infrastructure: Token-2022, responsible for minting tokens, and ZK ElGamal Proof, which verifies zero-knowledge proofs (yes, the ones that provide privacy to transactions). 🔐