Vulnerability Details CVE-2022-23495
go-merkledag implements the 'DAGService' interface and adds two ipld node types, Protobuf and Raw for the ipfs project. A `ProtoNode` may be modified in such a way as to cause various encode errors which will trigger a panic on common method calls that don't allow for error returns. A `ProtoNode` should only be able to encode to valid DAG-PB, attempting to encode invalid DAG-PB forms will result in an error from the codec. Manipulation of an existing (newly created or decoded) `ProtoNode` using the modifier methods did not account for certain states that would place the `ProtoNode` into an unencodeable form. Due to conformance with the [`github.com/ipfs/go-block-format#Block`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/go-block-format#Block) and [`github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-format#Node`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-format#Node) interfaces, certain methods, which internally require a re-encode if state has changed, will panic due to the inability to return an error. This issue has been addressed across a number of pull requests. Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.8.1 for a complete set of fixes. Users unable to upgrade may attempt to mitigate this issue by sanitising inputs when allowing user-input to set a new `CidBuilder` on a `ProtoNode` and by sanitising `Tsize` (`Link#Size`) values such that they are a reasonable byte-size for sub-DAGs where derived from user-input.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 40.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2022-23495
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-merkledag:0.8.0