CVE-2023-40583

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.40%

Out-of-memory vulnerability in github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p

Published: 8/24/2023Modified: 5/20/2024

Description

A malicious actor can store an arbitrary amount of data in the memory of a remote node by sending the node a message with a signed peer record. Signed peer records from randomly generated peers can be sent by a malicious actor. This memory does not get garbage collected and so the remote node can run out of memory (OOM).

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (6)