CVE-2021-21369

Hyperledger Besu is an open-source, MainNet compatible, Ethereum client written in Java. In Besu before version 1.5.1 there is a denial-of-service vulnerability involving the HTTP JSON-RPC API service. If username and password authentication is enabled for the HTTP JSON-RPC API service, then prior to making any requests to an API endpoint the requestor must use the login endpoint to obtain a JSON web token (JWT) using their credentials. A single user can readily overload the login endpoint with invalid requests (incorrect password). As the supplied password is checked for validity on the main vertx event loop and takes a relatively long time this can cause the processing of other valid requests to fail. A valid username is required for this vulnerability to be exposed. This has been fixed in version 1.5.1.
Configurations

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cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:besu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2021-03-09 18:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 18:08


NVD link : CVE-2021-21369

Mitre link : CVE-2021-21369

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-21369


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Products Affected

linuxfoundation

  • besu
CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption