CVE-2021-21369 (GCVE-0-2021-21369)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-09 18:10
Modified
2024-08-03 18:09
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CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
Hyperledger Besu is an open-source, MainNet compatible, Ethereum client written in Java. In Besu before version 1.5.1 there is a denial-of-service vulnerability involving the HTTP JSON-RPC API service. If username and password authentication is enabled for the HTTP JSON-RPC API service, then prior to making any requests to an API endpoint the requestor must use the login endpoint to obtain a JSON web token (JWT) using their credentials. A single user can readily overload the login endpoint with invalid requests (incorrect password). As the supplied password is checked for validity on the main vertx event loop and takes a relatively long time this can cause the processing of other valid requests to fail. A valid username is required for this vulnerability to be exposed. This has been fixed in version 1.5.1.
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Impacted products
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| hyperledger | besu |
Version: < 1.5.1 |
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