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CVE-2023-40591
Denial of service via malicious p2p message in go-ethereum
High7.5EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node, can be made to consume unbounded amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix is included in geth version `1.12.1-stable`, i.e, `1.12.2-unstable` and onwards. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 1.12.1-stable
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/ethereum/go-ethereumGHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/developers/geth-developer/disclosures (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.12.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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