7.5

CVE-2020-10937: protocol ipfs

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesGHSA-r23h-3jmw-q7hrGO-2024-2779
Published 02-11-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-10937 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in protocol ipfs. EPSS estimates a 1.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-11-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in IPFS (aka go-ipfs) 0.4.23. An attacker can generate ephemeral identities (Sybils) and leverage the IPFS connection management reputation system to poison other nodes' routing tables, eclipsing the nodes that are the target of the attack from the rest of the network. Later versions, in particular go-ipfs 0.7, mitigate this.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

67%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.16% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Github.com/ipfs1 product
  • go-ipfs< 0.7.0
Protocol1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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