CVE-2020-15091CWE-347

Denial of Service in TenderMint

Medium · published July 2, 2020

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
59.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TenderMint from version 0.33.0 and before version 0.33.6 allows block proposers to include signatures for the wrong block. This may happen naturally if you start a network, have it run for some time and restart it (**without changing chainID**). A malicious block proposer (even with a minimal amount of stake) can use this vulnerability to completely halt the network. This issue is fixed in Tendermint 0.33.6 which checks all the signatures are for the block with 2/3+ majority before creating a commit.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00905 · 59.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-347 · Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Published
2020-07-02T17:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 JUL 17:05Z
    Denial of Service in TenderMint
    cvelistv5