CVE-2020-26264
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-11 16:45
Modified
2024-08-04 15:56
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.25 a denial-of-service vulnerability can make a LES server crash via malicious GetProofsV2 request from a connected LES client. This vulnerability only concerns users explicitly enabling les server; disabling les prevents the exploit. The vulnerability was patched in version 1.9.25.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/bddd103a9f0af27ef533f04e06ea429cf76b6d46Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/21896Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.9.25Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-r33q-22hv-j29qThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/bddd103a9f0af27ef533f04e06ea429cf76b6d46Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/21896Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.9.25Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-r33q-22hv-j29qThird Party Advisory
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