CVE-2020-26242

Denial of service in geth

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Nov 25, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Oct 1, 2020

Description

Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.18, there is a Denial-of-service (crash) during block processing. This is fixed in 1.9.18.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
go-ethereumethereum	< 1.9.18Affected

References

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-jm5c-rv3w-w83m
https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release/

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