5.5
MEDIUM
CVE-2024-50354
Gnark Memory Allocation Error
Description

gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 31, 2024, 4:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 1, 2024, 12:57 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Affected Products

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/commit/47ae846339add2bdf9983e499342bfdfe195191d
https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307
https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g

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  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 31, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/commit/47ae846339add2bdf9983e499342bfdfe195191d [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-400
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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