CVE-2023-30769 Rab13s Exploit
Attackers can take Dogecoin nodes offline by sending crafted consensus messages, requiring a patch to mitigate the denial of service risk.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-30769?
CVE-2023-30769 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Dogecoin Node, published on 17 Apr 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Vulnerability discovered is related to the peer-to-peer (p2p) communications, attackers can craft consensus messages, send it to individual nodes and take them offline. An attacker can crawl the network peers using getaddr message and attack the unpatched nodes.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-30769?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Dogecoin Dogecoin.
How do I fix CVE-2023-30769?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-30769 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2023-30769 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-30769 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Dogecoin Node
Sources
Also known as GHSA-543h-6vp9-2f5c.