CVE-2021-42219

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.43%

Denial of service in go-ethereum

Published: 3/18/2022Modified: 11/8/2023

Description

Go-Ethereum v1.10.9 was discovered to contain an issue which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via sending an excessive amount of messages to a node. This is caused by missing memory in the component /ethash/algorithm.go.

Affected packages (1)

Go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereumfrom 0, <= 1.10.9

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42219
WEBhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1dYFSpNZPC0OV-n1mMqdc269u9yYU1XQy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112110745137218798745&rtpof=true&sd=true