CVE-2024-50354

Nov. 1, 2024, 12:57 p.m.

5.5
Medium

Description

gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
gnark
  • 0.11.0 and earlier

Weaknesses

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References

https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/commit/47ae846339add2bdf9983e499342bfdfe195191d
https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307
https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g

Tags

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-400
2024-10-31
CVE-2024-50354

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Date

  • Published: Oct. 31, 2024, 4:15 p.m.
  • Last Modified: Nov. 1, 2024, 12:57 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

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