Uncontrolled resource consumption in github.com/tendermint/tendermint
CVE-2019-25072

7.5HIGH

What is CVE-2019-25072?

Due to support of Gzip compression in request bodies, as well as a lack of limiting response body sizes, a malicious server can cause a client to consume a significant amount of system resources, which may be used as a denial of service vector.

Affected Version(s)

github.com/tendermint/tendermint/rpc/lib/client 0 < 0.31.1

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

@guagualvcha
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