CVE-2020-11090
Description
In Indy Node 1.12.2, there is an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability. Indy Node has a bug in TAA handling code. The current primary can be crashed with a malformed transaction from a client, which leads to a view change. Repeated rapid view changes have the potential of bringing down the network. This is fixed in version 1.12.3.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/security/advisories/GHSA-3gw4-m5w7-v89c
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11090
- https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node
- https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1123
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/indy-node/PYSEC-2020-47.yaml
- https://pypi.org/project/indy-node/1.12.3
- https://pypi.org/project/indy-node/1.12.3/
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.