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mppx-condition-gate EUVDEUVD-2026-92447

| CVE-2026-104891 HIGH
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing (CWE-290)
2026-10-05 GitHub_M GHSA-jg6q-3qfh-r9f8
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Identify any qualifying wallet from public on-chain state
  2. Exploit
    Send request with credential.source set to that wallet
  3. Execution
    Gate validates condition, skips payment verifier
  4. Impact
    Receive free-access receipt and replay cached grant

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Anti-spoofing controls
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitable only where a vulnerable version is deployed and actively using the free-access path: @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate before 3.0.0, or @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate 1.0.0 through 1.0.3, configured with on-chain conditions to grant free access to otherwise-paid content. The attacker must name a wallet address that actually satisfies the configured condition (token balance or NFT ownership), but since qualifying wallets are public blockchain state this is a lookup, not a secret. No authentication, user interaction, or control of the named wallet is required (PR:N, UI:N), and default condition-gating configurations are affected. The primary limiting factor is scope of deployment, not exploit prerequisites; upgrading to the fixed versions, which require a provenPayer resolver and fall through to payment when control is unproven, eliminates the condition.

Impact

This is a genuine access-control bypass (CWE-290, Authentication Bypass by Spoofing) rather than a high-CVSS-but-low-real-risk issue, but its practical priority is tightly bounded by the affected software's tiny footprint. The signals are internally consistent: the NVD CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, 7.5) matches the description - a remote, unauthenticated caller supplies credential.source and receives a free-access receipt with no proof of wallet control, and the qualifying wallets are public on-chain state, so there is nothing to brute-force or guess. The exploit is therefore trivially reliable where the vulnerable gate is deployed. However, no EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC was provided in the intelligence; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. The dominant risk-limiting factor is NOT exploit difficulty but deployment scarcity: these are obscure, now-deprecated npm packages for mppx crypto payment gating. Note the confidentiality-only scoring (C:H/I:N/A:N) is defensible since the impact is unauthorized access to paid content, though one could also frame payment-bypass as an integrity/business-logic concern - the vendor fix confirms the access-control reading.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker browsing a site that uses mppx-condition-gate (<3.0.0) or mppx-token-gate (<1.0.4) for paywalled content looks up any wallet that already satisfies the configured on-chain condition (e.g., holds the required token or NFT) - public chain data - and sends a request whose credential.source names that wallet. The gate confirms the address meets the condition and returns a free-access receipt without ever invoking the wrapped payment verifier or proving the caller controls the wallet, so the attacker receives the paid content for free, and the cached grant can be replayed for the configured cache lifetime. No public exploit code was identified, but exploitation is low-complexity and requires no authentication.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 05, 2026

An authentication bypass in the npm packages @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate (before 3.0.0) and @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate (1.0.0 through 1.0.3) lets unauthenticated remote attackers obtain content that should require payment by simply naming any wallet address that satisfies the configured on-chain condition. The gates trusted the client-supplied credential.source as proof of payer identity instead of verifying wallet control, so since qualifying wallets are public blockchain state, no secret or wallet ownership is needed; cached free-access grants can also be reused for the configured cache lifetime. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and practical risk is bounded by the small deployment footprint of these packages; the vendor-released fixes are @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate 3.0.0 and @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate 1.0.4.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to the vendor-released fixed versions: @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate 3.0.0 or later, and @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate 1.0.4. Note that the token-gate 1.0.4 fix does not restore the free-access feature - it removes the free-access path so all traffic takes the paid route (the API signature is preserved for compile compatibility, but receipt references and behavior change), so upgrade only after confirming that loss of free access is acceptable or after migrating to condition-gate v3. The condition-gate 3.0.0 migration requires supplying a provenPayer resolver, for example provenPayer: (details) => details.payer ?? null, which receives only method-specific validation details and falls through to payment whenever payer control is not proven. If upgrading immediately is not possible, disable condition-based free access entirely (stop configuring on-chain conditions that waive the wrapped payment verifier), accepting that legitimate wallet holders lose free access; alternatively, in deployments that cannot remove the feature, shorten the grant cache lifetime to reduce reuse of leaked free-access receipts, but be aware this is only a partial control because the core spoofing bypass remains. Full details and migration guidance are in the vendor advisory GHSA-jg6q-3qfh-r9f8 and the associated fix commits.

Affected VersionsENISA

mppx-condition-gate < b1d9935a57ba6d32da49eead1bfb459ad0cd55ab
mppx-condition-gate < 3.0.0
mppx-token-gate < 1.0.4

Affected Packages

npm @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate fix: 3.0.0
npm @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate fix: 1.0.4
euvd mppx_condition_gate fix: 3.0.0
euvd mppx_token_gate fix: 1.0.4

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 4 packages in npm, euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected code is a middleware-style wrapper for mppx payment methods that implements "conditional free access": if a caller's named wallet meets configured on-chain conditions (token balance or NFT ownership, checked against the configured chain such as EVM, Solana, XRPL, or Bitcoin), the gate issues a successful free-access receipt without invoking the wrapped payment verifier. The root cause is CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing): the gate read the payer address from the caller-supplied credential.source field, which mppx itself documents as "an asserted identity, not independent proof of control," and never established that the caller controlled that wallet. Because qualifying wallet addresses are public chain state, an attacker can look up any wallet meeting the configured threshold and claim free access; receipts issued as token-gate:free: can also be cached and reused for the configured cache lifetime. The fixed versions require a provenPayer resolver that only receives mppx's method-specific validation details (never the credential or source) and fall through to the paid path whenever a proven payer is unavailable. The legacy mppx-token-gate package removes the free-access path entirely rather than repairing it, since it has no mechanism to obtain a proven payer.

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Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 7.5 HIGH

Remote unauthenticated caller spoofs any public qualifying wallet with no interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); impact is unauthorized access to paid content, so C:H with no integrity/availability effect.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Oct 05, 2026 - 17:17 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 05, 2026 - 15:55 cve.org
HIGH 7.5

DescriptionCVE.org

mppx-condition-gate provides conditional free-access wrappers for mppx payment methods. Prior to @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate 3.0.0 and @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate 1.0.4, the packages read a wallet address from the client-supplied credential.source, checked whether that public address met configured on-chain conditions, and returned a successful free-access receipt without invoking the wrapped payment verifier or proving that the caller controlled the wallet. An unauthenticated attacker could name any qualifying wallet and obtain content that should require payment, and cached grants could be reused for the configured cache lifetime. The corrected packages prevent free-access authorization unless payer control has been established. These issues are fixed in @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate 3.0.0 and @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate 1.0.4.

Technical POC Analysis

CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing), with a secondary CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) per the advisory.

Full technical POC analysis - root cause, step-by-step exploitation and patch breakdown - is part of the Pro and Business plans.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Two npm packages used to gate paid content behind on-chain wallet conditions - @insumermodel/mppx-condition-gate and @insumermodel/mppx-token-gate - can be bypassed by anyone who names a qualifying wallet address, because the gates accept a client-supplied claim of payer identity rather than verifying actual wallet control. Any organization relying on these packages to monetize digital content or token-gated services should assume its paywall can be defeated without payment, undermining both revenue and the access controls that underpin paid-tier entitlements. Exposure is limited to the packages' small deployment footprint, but for affected teams the loss of monetization integrity is direct and immediate.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch. Where upgrading cannot be completed immediately, disable or remove the affected gating packages, invalidate cached free-access grants, and require server-side verification of wallet ownership instead of trusting client-supplied credential.source values.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 81% exploitable
Prevalence
Rare
obscure, deprecated web3 npm gating packages; negligible production footprint
Threat Intel
1
1 source
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment GHSA GitHub

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

38
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +38
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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