High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-43667
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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