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CVE-2020-5303 Detail

Current Description

Tendermint before versions 0.33.3, 0.32.10, and 0.31.12 has a denial-of-service vulnerability. Tendermint does not limit the number of P2P connection requests. For each p2p connection, it allocates XXX bytes. Even though this memory is garbage collected once the connection is terminated (due to duplicate IP or reaching a maximum number of inbound peers), temporary memory spikes can lead to OOM (Out-Of-Memory) exceptions. Additionally, Tendermint does not reclaim activeID of a peer after it's removed in Mempool reactor. This does not happen all the time. It only happens when a connection fails (for any reason) before the Peer is created and added to all reactors. RemovePeer is therefore called before AddPeer, which leads to always growing memory (activeIDs map). The activeIDs map has a maximum size of 65535 and the node will panic if this map reaches the maximum. An attacker can create a lot of connection attempts (exploiting above denial of service), which ultimately will lead to the node panicking. These issues are patched in Tendermint 0.33.3 and 0.32.10.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/commit/e2d6859afd7dba4cf97c7f7d412e7d8fc908d1cd Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/commit/e2d6859afd7dba4cf97c7f7d412e7d8fc908d1cd Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/security/advisories/GHSA-v24h-pjjv-mcp6 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/security/advisories/GHSA-v24h-pjjv-mcp6 Third Party Advisory 
https://hackerone.com/reports/820317 Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
https://hackerone.com/reports/820317 Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-5303
NVD Published Date:
04/10/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc.