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CVE-2023-25568

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-25568 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Boxo (formerly go-libipfs) versions 0.4.0 and 0.5.0, a library for building IPFS applications. An unauthenticated attacker can allocate excessive memory in the Bitswap server, leading to resource exhaustion even after the connection is closed. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) has a low attack complexity and can result in a complete loss of availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:protocol:boxo:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:protocol:boxo:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/ipfs/go-libipfsFixed in: 0.6.0
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/ipfs/go-libipfsFixed in: 0.4.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-m974-xj4j-7qv5high

Boxo bitswap/server: DOS unbounded persistent memory leak

May 11, 2023

References

github.com / ipfs/boxo/commit/62cbac40b96f49e39cd7fedc77ee6b56adce4916
Patch
github.com / ipfs/boxo/commit/9cb5cb54d40b57084d1221ba83b9e6bb3fcc3197
Patch
github.com / ipfs/boxo/commit/baa748b682fabb21a4c1f7628a8af348d4645974
Patch
github.com / ipfs/go-libipfs/security/advisories/GHSA-m974-xj4j-7qv5
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory