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CVE-2019-25072

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-25072 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Tendermint Tendermint, stemming from its support for Gzip compression in request bodies and a lack of response body size limits. A malicious server can exploit this to force a client to consume excessive system resources. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.31.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tendermint:tendermint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0113 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/tendermint/tendermintFixed in: 0.31.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-3fm3-m23v-5r46high

Tendermint Client package vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Dec 28, 2022

References

github.com / tendermint/tendermint/commit/03085c2da23b179c4a51f59a03cb40aa4e85a613
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / tendermint/tendermint/pull/3430
Third Party Advisory
pkg.go.dev / vuln/GO-2020-0037
Third Party Advisory