# CVE-2025-59942: go-f3 module vulnerable to integer overflow leading to panic

- Also known as: GHSA-G99P-47X7-MQ88, GO-2025-3990
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.8.7
- Published: 2025-09-29 · Updated: 2025-09-30

## Affected

- filecoin-project go-f3: fixed in 0.8.7
- github.com/filecoin-project/go-f3 (Go): fixed in 0.8.7

## Description

go-f3 is a Golang implementation of Fast Finality for Filecoin (F3). In versions 0.8.6 and below, go-f3 panics when it validates a "poison" messages causing Filecoin nodes consuming F3 messages to become vulnerable. A "poison" message can can cause integer overflow in the signer index validation, which can cause the whole node to crash. These malicious messages aren't self-propagating since the bug is in the validator. An attacker needs to directly send the message to all targets. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on filecoin-project go-f3, github.com/filecoin-project/go-f3, upgrade to a fixed version (0.8.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-f3/security/advisories/GHSA-g99p-47x7-mq88

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