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go-ethereum vulnerable to DoS via malicious p2p message

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 6, 2024 in ethereum/go-ethereum • Updated May 9, 2024

Package

gomod github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.13.15

Patched versions

1.13.15

Description

Impact

A vulnerable node can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node.

More in-depth details will be released at a later time.

Patches

The fix has been included in geth version 1.13.15 and onwards.

Workarounds

No workarounds have been made public.

References

No more information is released at this time.

Credit

This issue was disclosed responsibly by DongHan Kim via the Ethereum bug bounty program. Thank you for your cooperation.

References

@holiman holiman published to ethereum/go-ethereum May 6, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 6, 2024
Reviewed May 6, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 6, 2024
Last updated May 9, 2024

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-32972

GHSA ID

GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652

Source code

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