# CVE-2026-44697: Klever-Go MultiDataInterceptor: remote OOM via crafted compressed P2P payload

- Also known as: GHSA-87M7-QFFR-542V, GO-2026-5246
- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.7.17
- Published: 2026-05-29 · Updated: 2026-07-21

## Affected

- klever-io klever-go: fixed in 1.7.17
- github.com/klever-io/klever-go (Go): through 1.7.16
- github.com/klever-io/klever-go (Go): all versions

## Description

Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Prior to 1.7.17, a remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in Batch.Decompress (data/batch/batch.go) allows any peer that participates in a topic served by MultiDataInterceptor to allocate multi-gigabyte heaps on the receiving node from a sub-50 KiB gossip payload. A single packet is sufficient to OOM-kill a validator with conventional memory provisioning. Fleet-wide application affects chain liveness. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.17.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on klever-io klever-go, github.com/klever-io/klever-go, upgrade to a fixed version (1.7.17) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/klever-io/klever-go/security/advisories/GHSA-87m7-qffr-542v

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