CVE detail

CVE-2020-12821 — CVE-2020-12821

Published 2020-07-07 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor protocol · Product gossipsub · Source nvd

CRITICAL

severity

CVSS-derived band

9.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0194

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

78.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Gossipsub 1.0 does not properly resist invalid message spam, such as an eclipse attack or a sybil attack.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

NVD entry ↗
CVE.org record ↗

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