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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-43667

A vulnerability has been detected in HyperLedger Fabric v1.4.0, v2.0.0, v2.1.0. This bug can be leveraged by constructing a message whose payload is nil and sending this message with the method 'forwardToLeader'. This bug has been admitted and fixed by the developers of Fabric. If leveraged, any leader node will crash.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-43667

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Nov 2021, 16:15 UTC

A vulnerability has been detected in HyperLedger Fabric v1.4.0, v2.0.0, v2.1.0. This bug can be leveraged by constructing a message whose payload is nil and sending this message with the method 'forwardToLeader'. This bug has been admitted and fixed by the developers of Fabric. If leveraged, any leader node will crash.

osv:CVE-2021-43667
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-43667",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "A vulnerability has been detected in HyperLedger Fabric v1.4.0, v2.0.0, v2.1.0. This bug can be leveraged by constructing a message whose payload is nil and sending this message with the method 'forwardToLeader'. This bug has been admitted and fixed by the developers of Fabric. If leveraged, any leader node will crash.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:55:03.030258596Z",
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      "references": [
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}