Vulnerability CVE-2020-12821
Published: 2020-07-07

Description:
Gossipsub 1.0 does not properly resist invalid message spam, such as an eclipse attack or a sybil attack.

Type:

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Protocol -> Gossipsub 

 References:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/61151/eclipse-attack-vs-sybil-attack
https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPWuNBs8h6a8KamRvGqhTq5UDYJRQsEEy37zDKjujQQQm/Gossipsub%20Evaluation%20Report.pdf
https://github.com/ipfs/blog/pull/450
https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md
https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/pubsub/gossipsub
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