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CVE-2022-29177

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.9 Published: 2022-05-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Ethereum Go Ethereum

Weakness Type

CWE-400, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References