Vulnerability: Denial of Service (DoS) in FISCO-BCOS V2.7.2 due to Unformatted Packet Handling

Vulnerability: Denial of Service (DoS) in FISCO-BCOS V2.7.2 due to Unformatted Packet Handling

CVE-2021-35041 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The blockchain node in FISCO-BCOS V2.7.2 may have a bug when dealing with unformatted packet and lead to a crash. A malicious node can send a packet continuously. The packet is in an incorrect format and cannot be decoded by the node correctly. As a result, the node may consume the memory sustainably and crash. More details are shown at: https://github.com/FISCO-BCOS/FISCO-BCOS/issues/1951

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