GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-hg58-rf2h-6rr7 CometBFT is unstability during blocksync when syncing from malicious peer
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/cometbft/cometbft
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-610
- Reviewed
- 2024-06-28
Affected packages
• Go github.com/cometbft/cometbft: >= 0.37.0, < 0.37.7 → fixed in 0.37.7
• Go github.com/cometbft/cometbft: >= 0.38.0, < 0.38.8 → fixed in 0.38.8
Description
Name: ASA-2024-008: Instability during blocksync when syncing from malicious peer
Component: CometBFT
Criticality: Medium (ACMv1: I:Moderate; L: Possible)
Affected versions: < v0.38.7
Summary
An issue was identified for nodes syncing on an existing network during blocksync in which a malicious peer could cause the syncing peer to panic, enter into a catastrophic invalid syncing state or get stuck in blocksync mode, never switching to consensus. It is recommended for all clients to adopt this patch so that blocksync functions as expected and is tolerant of malicious peers presenting invalid data in this situation. Nodes that are vulnerable to this state may experience a Denial of Service condition in which syncing will not work as expected when joining a network as a client.
Recognition
This issue was reported to the Cosmos Bug Bounty Program on HackerOne on 5/01/24 by unknown_feature. If you believe you have found a bug in the Interchain Stack or would like to contribute to the program by reporting a bug, please see https://hackerone.com/cosmos.
If you have questions about Interchain security efforts, please reach out to our official communication channel at [email protected].
For more information about CometBFT, please see https://docs.cometbft.com/.
For more information about the Interchain Foundation’s engagement with Amulet, please see https://github.com/interchainio/security.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-610 Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere weakness
References
- https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/security/advisories/GHSA-hg58-rf2h-6rr7 web
- https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/commit/07866e11139127e415bd0339ac377b6e6a845533 web
- https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/commit/8ba2e4f52d5e626e019501ba6420cc86d5de7857 web
- https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft package