CVE-2020-10937

Summary

CVECVE-2020-10937
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-02 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-13 15:38:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in IPFS (aka go-ipfs) 0.4.23. An attacker can generate ephemeral identities (Sybils) and leverage the IPFS connection management reputation system to poison other nodes' routing tables, eclipsing the nodes that are the target of the attack from the rest of the network. Later versions, in particular go-ipfs 0.7, mitigate this.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Protocol Ipfs 0.4.23 All All All
Application Protocol Ipfs 0.4.23 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Disrupting the InterPlanetary File System — Graz University of Technology MISC graz.pure.elsevier.com Third Party Advisory
Hardening the IPFS public DHT against eclipse attacks MISC blog.ipfs.io Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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