CVE-2024-50354

Published: Oct 31, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Consensys: Gnark

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Consensys Gnark	Before 0.12.0

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (3)

https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/commit/47ae846339add2bdf9983e499342bfdfe195191d

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Issue TrackingPatch

https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g

Source: security-advisories@github.com

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