CVE 6.9 MEDIUM

Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message_CVE-2026-26313

6.9 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.17.0, an attacker can cause high memory usage by sending a specially-crafted p2p message. The issue is resolved in the v1.17.0 release.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-26313
Source GitHub_M
Published Feb 19, 2026 at 21:07

Affected Product

Vendor ethereum
Product go-ethereum
Version < 1.17.0
Affected Versions ethereum go-ethereum < 1.17.0

CWE Classification

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