CVE-2023-40591
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40591
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40591.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-40591
- Aliases
- Published
- 2023-09-06T18:07:20.899Z
- Modified
- 2025-12-05T00:04:12.589786Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- 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-unstableand onwards. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. - Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-400" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40591.json" }- References
-
- https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/developers/geth-developer/disclosures
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40591.json
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.12.1
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40591
Affected packages
Git / github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
0.*
0.2.2
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.5.13
0.5.14
0.5.15
0.5.16
0.5.17
0.5.18
0.5.19
0.9.16
0.9.23
Other
2
PoC6
poc1
poc5-rc1
poc5-rc10
poc5-rc11
poc5-rc12
poc5-rc2
poc5-rc3
poc5-rc4
poc5-rc6
poc5-rc7
poc5-rc8
poc5-rc9
v0.*
v0.6.0
v0.6.3
v0.6.4
v0.6.5
v0.6.5-1
v0.6.5-2
v0.6.6
v0.6.7
v0.6.8
v0.7.10
v0.7.10-broken
v0.7.11
v0.8.4
v0.8.4-1
v0.8.5
v0.8.5-2
v0.9.17
v0.9.18
v0.9.20
v0.9.21
v0.9.21.1
v0.9.22
v0.9.23
v0.9.24
v0.9.25
v0.9.26
v0.9.28
v0.9.30
v0.9.32
v0.9.34
v0.9.34-1
v0.9.36
v0.9.38
v0.9.39
v1.*
v1.0.1
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
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.3
v1.5.4
v1.5.5
v1.5.6
v1.5.7
v1.5.8
v1.5.9
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.6.3
v1.6.4
v1.6.5
v1.6.6
v1.6.7
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.7.2
v1.7.3
v1.8.0
v1.8.1
v1.8.10
v1.8.11
v1.8.12
v1.8.13
v1.8.14
v1.8.15
v1.8.16
v1.8.17
v1.8.18
v1.8.19
v1.8.2
v1.8.20
v1.8.21
v1.8.3
v1.8.4
v1.8.5
v1.8.6
v1.8.7
v1.8.8
v1.8.9
v1.9.0
v1.9.1
v1.9.10
v1.9.11
v1.9.12
v1.9.13
v1.9.14
v1.9.15
v1.9.16
v1.9.17
v1.9.18
v1.9.19
v1.9.2
v1.9.20
v1.9.21
v1.9.22
v1.9.23
v1.9.24
v1.9.25
v1.9.3
v1.9.4
v1.9.5
v1.9.6
v1.9.7
v1.9.8
v1.9.9