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

2023-09-0618:07:20

CWE-400

GitHub_M

github.com

cve-2023-40591

denial of service

go-ethereum

ethereum protocol

vulnerability

memory consumption

upgrade

CVSS3

7.5

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

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

yes

Technical Impact

partial

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.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:go_ethereum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "ethereum",
    "product": "go_ethereum",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "1.12.1-stable",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]