7.5

CVE-2024-32972: ethereum go-ethereum Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesGHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652GO-2024-2819
Published 06-05-2024Last modified 02-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-32972 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ethereum go-ethereum. EPSS estimates a 0.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.85%
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. 06-05-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to 1.13.15, a vulnerable node can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix has been included in geth version `1.13.15` and onwards.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.85%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

58%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.85% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.85%

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

Affected systems

Ethereum1 product
Github.com/ethereum1 product
  • go-ethereum< 1.13.15

2 vendors · 2 products

References

5 links