01 Record
CVE-2020-12821
Gossipsub 1.0 does not properly resist invalid message spam, such as an eclipse attack or a sybil attack.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Gossipsub 1.0 does not properly resist invalid message spam, such as an eclipse attack or a sybil attack.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.93% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 79.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-07-07 19:18Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 12:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-05-12
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3794db76a609522d3af9c97b67bdf76cdec72fa692d319924b1d3a38b12efe08
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/pubsub/gossipsub
- github.comhttps://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md
- bitcoin.stackexchange.comhttps://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/61151/eclipse-attack-vs-sybil-attack
- github.comhttps://github.com/ipfs/blog/pull/450
- gateway.ipfs.iohttps://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPWuNBs8h6a8KamRvGqhTq5UDYJRQsEEy37zDKjujQQQm/Gossipsub%20Evaluation%20Report.pdf