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GHSA-f8qm-hmm3-fv7f

CriticalCVSS 9.2 / 10
Published Feb 20, 2025·Last modified Feb 20, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

A malicious transaction may cause an expensive computation in mempool validation.

A transaction with multiple repeated sections causes the section hash calculation used for signature validation to grow exponentially (and potentially even cubic) in proportion to number of sections. This may be used to significantly slow down operation of nodes.

Patches

This issue has been patched in apps version 1.1.0. The transaction sections are now being checked for uniqueness and the number of permitted sections contained in a single transaction has been limited to 10,000.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds and users are advised to upgrade.

Risk Scores
Base Score
9.2

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.

Threat Intelligence
7.7

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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