CVE-2021-41173

DoS via maliciously crafted p2p message

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Oct 26, 2021
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Sep 15, 2021

Description

Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.9, a vulnerable node is susceptible to crash when processing a maliciously crafted message from a peer. Version v1.10.9 contains patches to the vulnerability. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
go-ethereumethereum	< 1.10.9Affected

References

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-59hh-656j-3p7v
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/23801
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/e40b37718326b8b4873b3b00a0db2e6c6d9ea738
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.10.9

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