High
Security advisory
In Indy Node 1.12.2, there is an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability. Indy Node has a bug in TAA handling code. The current primary can be crashed with a malformed transaction from a client, which leads to a view change. Repeated rapid view changes have the potential of bringing down the network. This is fixed in version 1.12.3.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11090
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Indy Node 1.12.2, there is an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability. Indy Node has a bug in TAA handling code. The current primary can be crashed with a malformed transaction from a client, which leads to a view change. Repeated rapid view changes have the potential of bringing down the network. This is fixed in version 1.12.3.
osv:CVE-2020-11090
Complete source record
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