Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message

Description

Impact

An attacker can cause high memory usage by sending a specially-crafted p2p message.
More details to be released later.

Patches

The issue is resolved in the v1.17.0 release.

Credit

This issue was reported to the Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program by @revofusion

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
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Source code
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Published (advisory)
2026-02-18 22:34:49 UTC
Updated
2026-02-27 20:38:25 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-02-18 22:34:49 UTC
NVD published
2026-02-19

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.03% 8.95%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
6.9 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:N)
No user interaction is required.
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:N)
No confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:L)
Limited availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Credits

  • revofusion (finder)

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum < 1.17.0 1.17.0

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence