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CVE-2025-68113
December 16, 2025
ALTCHA is privacy-first software for captcha and bot protection. A cryptographic semantic binding flaw in ALTCHA libraries allows challenge payload splicing, which may enable replay attacks. The HMAC signature does not unambiguously bind challenge parameters to the nonce, allowing an attacker to reinterpret a valid proof-of-work submission with a modified expiration value. This may allow previously solved challenges to be reused beyond their intended lifetime, depending on server-side replay handling and deployment assumptions. The vulnerability primarily impacts abuse-prevention mechanisms such as rate limiting and bot mitigation. It does not directly affect data confidentiality or integrity. This issue has been addressed by enforcing explicit semantic separation between challenge parameters and the nonce during HMAC computation. Users are advised to upgrade to patched versions, which include version 1.0.0 of the altcha Golang package, version 1.0.0 of the altcha Rubygem, version 1.0.0 of the altcha pip package, version 1.0.0 of the altcha Erlang package, version 1.4.1 of the altcha-lib npm package, version 1.3.1 of the altcha-org/altcha Composer package, and version 1.3.0 of the org.altcha:altcha Maven package. As a mitigation, implementations may append a delimiter to the end of the "salt" value prior to HMAC computation (for example, "<salt>?expires=<time>&"). This prevents ambiguity between parameters and the nonce and is backward-compatible with existing implementations, as the delimiter is treated as a standard URL parameter separator.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha-lib-rb.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) =0.2.1 <1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.0.0
https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha-lib-go.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.0.0
https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha-lib.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <1.4.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.4.1
https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha-lib-java.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.0-SNAPSHOT <v1.3.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.3.0
https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha-lib-ex.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) =v0.2.0 <v1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.0.0
github.com/altcha-org/altcha-lib-go (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.0.0
altcha (HEX):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.0.0
org.altcha:altcha (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=1.1.0 <1.3.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.3.0
altcha-lib (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <1.4.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.4.1
altcha (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.0.0
altcha (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <1.0.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.0.0
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Misinterpretation of Input
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
EPSS
Base Score:
0.03