CVE-2022-44797
Denial of service in message decoding in github.com/btcsuite/btcd
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.73%
Description
Erroneous message decoding can cause denial of service. Improper checking of maximum witness size during node message decoding prevented nodes in Lightning Labs lnd (before 0.15.2-beta) to sync.
How to fix CVE-2022-44797
To remediate CVE-2022-44797, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Go/github.com/btcsuite/btcd—upgrade to 0.23.2 or later
- —upgrade to 0.23.2 or later
- —upgrade to 0.15.2-beta or later
Is CVE-2022-44797 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 0.23.2
- from 0, < 0.23.2
- from 0, < 0.15.2-beta
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |