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AIKIDO-2025-10606

github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Sep 3, 2025

48

Medium Risk

This Affects:

GOgithub.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
1.9.0 - 1.16.2
Fixed in 1.16.3
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a deeply nested GraphQL query. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting and sending a malicious query with excessive nesting levels, which would consume disproportionate amounts of CPU and memory resources during parsing and execution. It could lead to service degradation or a complete outage, as the existing timeout mechanism might not trigger quickly enough to prevent resource exhaustion.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in versions 1.9.0 - 1.16.2.

How to fix this

Upgrade the github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum library to the patch version.

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