Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE-2024-32972
Summary
The Go-ethereum versions prior to 1.13.15 and Parallax versions prior to 0.1.4, has a vulnerable node that can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption
An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.
Advisory Timeline
- Published
