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CVE-2023-34450

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-34450 is a deadlock vulnerability in CometBFT versions 0.34.28 and 0.37.1, caused by an internal modification to JSON serialization of the PeerState struct. This medium severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) can lead to a denial of service, potentially halting a node or an entire two-node network, depending on how it's triggered. While there are no known active exploits, exploit code, or significant community discussion, workarounds and patches (versions 0.34.29 and 0.37.2) are available to mitigate the risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.34.28, < 0.34.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cometbft:cometbft:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.37.1, < 0.37.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cometbft:cometbft:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.7LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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/cometbft/cometbftFixed in: 0.34.29
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cometbft/cometbftFixed in: 0.37.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-mvj3-qrqh-cjvrmedium

CometBFT PeerState JSON serialization deadlock

Jul 5, 2023

References

github.com / cometbft/cometbft/pull/524
ExploitPatch
github.com / cometbft/cometbft/pull/863
Patch
github.com / cometbft/cometbft/pull/865
Patch
github.com / cometbft/cometbft/security/advisories/GHSA-mvj3-qrqh-cjvr
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch