ethereum/go-ethereum · Security
Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-689v-6xwf-5jf3
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-26313
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
An attacker can cause high memory usage by sending a specially-crafted p2p message. More details to be released later.
Patches
The issue is resolved in the v1.17.0 release.
Credit
This issue was reported to the Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program by @revofusion
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling