FKIE_CVE-2024-50354

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-31 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:04
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Consensys/gnark/commit/47ae846339add2bdf9983e499342bfdfe195191dPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82gExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
consensys gnark *
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