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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-11090

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-11090

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Jun 2020, 00:15 UTC

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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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:46.005572995Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382900,
  "published_at": "2020-06-11T00:15:22.443+00:00"
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