CVE-2024-50354 (GCVE-0-2024-50354)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-31 15:59 – Updated: 2024-10-31 16:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Out-of-memory during deserialization with crafted inputs
Summary
gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-31 16:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/commit/47ae846… | x_refsource_MISC |
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