CVE-2022-29177 DoS via malicious p2p message in Go-Ethereum

What is CVE-2022-29177?

CVE-2022-29177 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in go-ethereum, published on 20 May 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.17, a vulnerable node, if configured to use high verbosity logging, can be made to crash when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. Version 1.10.17 contains a patch that addresses the problem. As a workaround, setting loglevel to default level (`INFO`) makes the node not vulnerable to this attack.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29177?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum. It affects 1 product.

Products include Ethereum Go Ethereum.

How do I fix CVE-2022-29177?

Upgrade github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum to 1.10.17 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-29177 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29177 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in go-ethereum

• CVE-2026-26314 Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message High 8.7
• CVE-2023-42319 go-ethereum vulnerable to denial of service via crafted GraphQL query High 7.5
• CVE-2023-40591 Denial of service via malicious p2p message in go-ethereum High 7.5
• CVE-2021-42219 Denial of service in go-ethereum High 7.5
• CVE-2022-23327 Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wjxw-gh3m-7pm5, GO-2022-0456.