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CVE-2023-26248GHSA-MQR9-HJR8-2M9WGO-2024-3218

The Kademlia DHT (go-libp2p-kad-dht 0.20.0 and earlier) used in IPFS (0.18.1 and earlier) assigns routing information for content (i.e., inf

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  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The Kademlia DHT (go-libp2p-kad-dht 0.20.0 and earlier) used in IPFS (0.18.1 and earlier) assigns routing information for content (i.e., information about who holds the content) to be stored by peers whose peer IDs have a small DHT distance from the content ID. This allows an attacker to censor content by generating many Sybil peers whose peer IDs have a small distance from the content ID, thus hijacking the content resolution process.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dhtGo

    through 0.20.0

  • github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dhtGo

    All versions

References 2

GitHub · libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht

arxiv.org