CVE-2024-32972

go-ethereum denial of service via malicious p2p message

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: May 6, 2024
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Apr 22, 2024

Description

go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to 1.13.15, a vulnerable node can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix has been included in geth version `1.13.15` and onwards.

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-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
go-ethereumethereum	< 1.13.15Affected

References

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/compare/v1.13.14...v1.13.15

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