CVE-2022-23495
ProtoNode may be modified such that common method calls may panic in ipfs/go-merkledag
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Dec 8, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 19, 2022
Description
go-merkledag implements the 'DAGService' interface and adds two ipld node types, Protobuf and Raw for the ipfs project. A `ProtoNode` may be modified in such a way as to cause various encode errors which will trigger a panic on common method calls that don't allow for error returns. A `ProtoNode` should only be able to encode to valid DAG-PB, attempting to encode invalid DAG-PB forms will result in an error from the codec. Manipulation of an existing (newly created or decoded) `ProtoNode` using the modifier methods did not account for certain states that would place the `ProtoNode` into an unencodeable form. Due to conformance with the [`github.com/ipfs/go-block-format#Block`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/go-block-format#Block) and [`github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-format#Node`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-format#Node) interfaces, certain methods, which internally require a re-encode if state has changed, will panic due to the inability to return an error. This issue has been addressed across a number of pull requests. Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.8.1 for a complete set of fixes. Users unable to upgrade may attempt to mitigate this issue by sanitising inputs when allowing user-input to set a new `CidBuilder` on a `ProtoNode` and by sanitising `Tsize` (`Link#Size`) values such that they are a reasonable byte-size for sub-DAGs where derived from user-input.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
go-merkledagipfs |
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References
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/security/advisories/GHSA-x39j-h85h-3f46
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/issues/90
- https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/9297
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/pull/91
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/pull/92
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/pull/93
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/releases/tag/v0.8.0
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-merkledag/releases/tag/v0.8.1
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