CVE-2023-40591 Denial of service via malicious p2p message in go-ethereum

2023-09-0618:07:20

CWE-400

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

denial of service

vulnerability

go-ethereum

p2p

malicious message

geth

ethereum protocol

memory consumption

attacker node

version upgrade

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.1%

JSON

go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node, can be made to consume unbounded amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix is included in geth version 1.12.1-stable, i.e, 1.12.2-unstable and onwards. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "ethereum",
    "product": "go-ethereum",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 1.12.1-stable",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]