CVE-2023-40583

libp2p is a networking stack and library modularized out of The IPFS Project, and bundled separately for other tools to use. In go-libp2p, by using signed peer records a malicious actor can store an arbitrary amount of data in a remote node’s memory. This memory does not get garbage collected and so the victim can run out of memory and crash. If users of go-libp2p in production are not monitoring memory consumption over time, it could be a silent attack i.e. the attacker could bring down nodes over a period of time (how long depends on the node resources i.e. a go-libp2p node on a virtual server with 4 gb of memory takes about 90 sec to bring down; on a larger server, it might take a bit longer.) This issue was patched in version 0.27.4.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:protocol:libp2p:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

History

01 Sep 2023, 13:10

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Protocol libp2p
Protocol
CWE CWE-400 NVD-CWE-noinfo
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
CPE cpe:2.3:a:protocol:libp2p:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
References (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/releases/tag/v0.27.7 - (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/releases/tag/v0.27.7 - Release Notes
References (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-gcq9-qqwx-rgj3 - (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-gcq9-qqwx-rgj3 - Vendor Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/commit/45d3c6fff662ddd6938982e7e9309ad5fa2ad8dd - (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/commit/45d3c6fff662ddd6938982e7e9309ad5fa2ad8dd - Patch
References (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/releases/tag/v0.27.4 - (MISC) https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/releases/tag/v0.27.4 - Release Notes

25 Aug 2023, 21:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-08-25 21:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 20:33


NVD link : CVE-2023-40583

Mitre link : CVE-2023-40583

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-40583


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Products Affected

protocol

  • libp2p
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption