GHSA-9gxx-58q6-42p7HighCVSS 6.5

Lightning Network Daemon (LND)'s onion processing logic leads to a denial of service

Published
June 20, 2024
Last Modified
November 18, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

A parsing vulnerability in lnd's onion processing logic led to a DoS vector due to excessive memory allocation.

Patches

The issue was patched in lnd v0.17.0. Users should update to a version >= v0.17.0 to be protected.

References

Detailed blog post: https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-onion-bomb/

Developer discussion: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/dos-disclosure-lnd-onion-bomb/979

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd:< 0.17.0-beta

🔗 References (7)