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GHSA-WJXW-GH3M-7PM5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 20:54 – Updated: 2022-06-07 14:30

Summary

DoS via malicious p2p message in Go Ethereum

Details

Impact

A vulnerable node, if configured to use high verbosity logging, can be made to crash when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node.

Patches

The following PR addresses the problem: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/24507

Workarounds

Aside from applying the PR linked above, setting loglevel to default level (INFO) makes the node not vulnerable to this attack.

Credits

This bug was reported by nrv via bounty@ethereum.org, who has gracefully requested that the bounty rewards be donated to Médecins sans frontières.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in go-ethereum

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2022-29177 (GCVE-0-2022-29177)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-20 16:20 – Updated: 2025-04-23 18:24

Title

DoS via malicious p2p message in Go-Ethereum

Summary

Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.17, a vulnerable node, if configured to use high verbosity logging, can be made to crash when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. Version 1.10.17 contains a patch that addresses the problem. As a workaround, setting loglevel to default level (`INFO`) makes the node not vulnerable to this attack.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:07 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7761 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/24507	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ethereum	go-ethereum	Affected: < 1.10.17

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