CVE-2020-12821 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Gossipsub 1.0 does not properly resist invalid message spam, such as an eclipse attack or a sybil attack.

Published: 2020-07-07

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:protocol:gossipsub:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-5104	Gossipsub 1.0 does not properly resist invalid message spam, such as an eclipse attack or a sybil attack.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00887.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/61151/eclipse-attack-vs-sybil-attack
https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPWuNBs8h6a8KamRvGqhTq5UDYJRQsEEy37zDKjujQQQm/Gossipsub%20Evaluation%20Report.pdf
https://github.com/ipfs/blog/pull/450
https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md
https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/pubsub/gossipsub

History

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Subscriptions

Protocol Gossipsub

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-07-07T19:18:43.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:04:22.908Z

Reserved: 2020-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-12821

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-07T20:15:10.027

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:00:20.317

Link: CVE-2020-12821

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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