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ghsa-wp4m-7hpj-8qp8

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-01-20 00:30

Modified

2025-11-29 03:30

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

Consensys Discovery versions less than 0.4.5 uses the same AES/GCM nonce for the entire session. which should ideally be unique for every message. The node's private key isn't compromised, only the session key generated for specific peer communication is exposed.

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  "modified": "2025-11-29T03:30:14Z",
  "published": "2024-01-20T00:30:27Z",
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CVE-2024-23688 (GCVE-0-2024-23688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-01-19 21:26

Modified

2025-11-29 02:02

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-323 - Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption

Summary

Consensys Discovery versions less than 0.4.5 uses the same AES/GCM nonce for the entire session. which should ideally be unique for every message. The node's private key isn't compromised, only the session key generated for specific peer communication is exposed.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/ConsenSys/discovery/security/advisories/GHSA-w3hj-wr2q-x83g	vendor-advisory
	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w3hj-wr2q-x83g	third-party-advisory
	https://vulncheck.com/advisories/vc-advisory-GHSA-w3hj-wr2q-x83g	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
			Version: 0

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