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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-52879 EUVD-2026-54720GHSA-hf2g-6j7h-98wgGO-2026-5424

Klever-Go: Unbounded goroutine spawn on direct-message ingress enables peer-driven DoS

Published Aug 7, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. In versions 1.7.14 through 1.7.17, the direct-message ingress handler spawns a new goroutine for every incoming direct message before the processor-level antiflood layer makes any admission decision, with no semaphore, throttler, or bound on the number of concurrent in-flight spawns. Because the antiflood check runs inside the spawned goroutine rather than before it, a single connected peer can open a direct-send stream and send a stream of well-formed messages to force unbounded goroutine creation, where each goroutine allocates its own stack and holds a message reference until processing completes, adding scheduler and garbage-collection pressure faster than the runtime can drain it. This lets one peer degrade the node's availability and its ability to process legitimate traffic, resulting in a remotely triggerable denial of service. The issue is fixed in 1.7.18.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
klever-io klever-go >= 1.7.14, < 1.7.18 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/klever-io/klever-go >= 1.7.14, < 1.7.18 1.7.18 GHSA-hf2g-6j7h-98wg

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