CVE-2024-32985 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-32985

Stellar-core's Overlay - security fix for DDoS mitigation

Vulnerability Description

Stellar-core is a reference implementation for the peer-to-peer agent that manages the Stellar network. Prior to 20.4.0, core nodes could be randomly crashed due to a race condition with a 3rd party library. The likelihood of affecting the network is low since crashed nodes come back up online right away. Code fix mitigation is part of Stellar-core v20.4.0 release

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

stellar-core
Vulnerable Versions:
< 20.4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 9th, 2024
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Persistence
T1565 Data Manipulation
Impact
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access