{"id":"CVE-2023-40591","summary":"Denial of service via malicious p2p message in go-ethereum","details":"go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node, can be made to consume unbounded amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix is included in geth version `1.12.1-stable`, i.e, `1.12.2-unstable` and onwards. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.\n","aliases":["GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm","GO-2023-2046"],"modified":"2026-04-17T04:24:58.098960Z","published":"2023-09-06T18:07:20.899Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-400"],"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40591.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/developers/geth-developer/disclosures"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.12.1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40591.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40591"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum","events":[{"introduced":"56dec25ae26bf749b93c3ea69538fabea60c5768"},{"fixed":"9c216bd6cbd7f0d3ab179700907a53409beeca9b"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:go_ethereum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.10.0"},{"fixed":"1.12.1"}],"source":["CPE_FIELD","REFERENCES"]}}],"versions":["v1.10.0","v1.10.1","v1.10.10","v1.10.11","v1.10.12","v1.10.13","v1.10.14","v1.10.15","v1.10.16","v1.10.17","v1.10.18","v1.10.19","v1.10.2","v1.10.20","v1.10.21","v1.10.22","v1.10.23","v1.10.3","v1.10.4","v1.10.5","v1.10.6","v1.10.7","v1.10.8","v1.10.9","v1.11.0","v1.11.1","v1.11.2","v1.11.3","v1.11.4","v1.11.5","v1.11.6","v1.12.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40591.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}