ethereum/go-ethereum · Security
go-ethereum is vulnerable to high CPU usage leading to DoS via malicious p2p message
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mq3p-rrmp-79jg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-22868
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 7.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
An attacker can cause high CPU usage by sending a specially crafted p2p message. More details to be released later.
Credit
This issue was reported to the Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program by @Yenya030
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption