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Content Censorship in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) via Kademlia DHT abuse

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 25, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 12, 2024

Package

gomod github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht (Go)

Affected versions

<= 0.20.0

Patched versions

None

Description

The Kademlia DHT (go-libp2p-kad-dht 0.20.0 and earlier) used in IPFS (0.18.1 and earlier) assigns routing information for content (i.e., information about who holds the content) to be stored by peers whose peer IDs have a small DHT distance from the content ID. This allows an attacker to censor content by generating many Sybil peers whose peer IDs have a small distance from the content ID, thus hijacking the content resolution process.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 25, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 25, 2024
Reviewed Oct 25, 2024
Last updated Dec 12, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-26248

GHSA ID

GHSA-mqr9-hjr8-2m9w

Source code

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