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Status published
Medium
CVE-2024-50354
Out-of-memory during deserialization with crafted inputs
Vulnerability Description
gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.
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
Consensys
View all reports →Affected Software
gnark
Vulnerable Versions:
<= 0.11.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 31st, 2024
Last Modified:
October 31st, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H