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🛡️ CVE-2020-10937 — go-ipfs

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 OSV
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Description

Access Restriction Bypass in go-ipfs

An issue was discovered in IPFS (aka go-ipfs) 0.4.23. An attacker can generate ephemeral identities (Sybils) and leverage the IPFS connection management reputation system to poison other nodes' routing tables, eclipsing the nodes that are the target of the attack from the rest of the network. Later versions, in particular go-ipfs 0.7, mitigate this.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-10937 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2020-10937 is recorded against 1 package.

  • github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

Timeline and source

Published on 24 April 2024 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
blog.ipfs.io (Web)
graz.pure.elsevier.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-04-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs — —

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