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CVE-2019-25072: Uncontrolled resource consumption in github.com/tendermint/tendermint

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Due to support of Gzip compression in request bodies, as well as a lack of limiting response body sizes, a malicious server can cause a client to consume a significant amount of system resources, which may be used as a denial of service vector.

Affected products

• tendermint: before 0.31.1 — fixed in 0.31.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: tendermint 0.31.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/commit/03085c2da23b179c4a51f59a03cb40aa4e85a613
• https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/3430
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0037
• https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/commit/03085c2da23b179c4a51f59a03cb40aa4e85a613
• https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/3430
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0037

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