CVE-2026-26314
EPSS 0.06%Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message
Published: 2/18/2026Modified: 2/28/2026
Description
### Impact A vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. More details to be released later. ### Patches The problem is resolved in the v1.16.9 and v1.17.0 releases of Geth. ### Credit This issue was reported to the Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program by Waleed Ahmed from vulsight.com
Affected packages (2)
- Go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereumfrom 0, < 1.16.9
- Go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereumfrom 0, < 1.16.9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26314
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
- WEBhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/895a8597cb16c02203e38707ed2d1da5c500fe60
- WEBhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.16.9
- WEBhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r
- WEBhttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4507