CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40591

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-09-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-09-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ethereum go ethereum (>= 1.10.0 < 1.12.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References