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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-45699 EUVD-2022-0422GHSA-2969-8hh9-57jcGHSA-48vq-8jqv-gm6fRUSTSEC-2021-0108

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ckb

Published Dec 26, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in the ckb crate before 0.40.0 for Rust. Remote attackers may be able to conduct a 51% attack against the Nervos CKB blockchain by triggering an inability to allocate memory for the misbehavior HashMap.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io ckb < 0.40.0 0.40.0 GHSA-2969-8hh9-57jc
crates.io ckb >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.40.0 0.40.0 RUSTSEC-2021-0108

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