CVE-2019-25072 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Due to support of Gzip compression in request bodies, as well as a lack of limiting response body sizes, a malicious server can cause a client to consume a significant amount of system resources, which may be used as a denial of service vector.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00123.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Tendermint	Tendermint

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tendermint:tendermint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-7486	Due to support of Gzip compression in request bodies, as well as a lack of limiting response body sizes, a malicious server can cause a client to consume a significant amount of system resources, which may be used as a denial of service vector.
Github GHSA	GHSA-3fm3-m23v-5r46	Tendermint Client package vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/commit/03085c2da23b179c4a51f59a03cb40aa4e85a613
https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/3430
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0037

History

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published: 2022-12-27T21:13:24.222Z

Updated: 2025-04-11T16:40:25.817Z

Reserved: 2022-07-29T17:10:15.500Z

Link: CVE-2019-25072

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T03:00:18.952Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-27T22:15:11.323

Modified: 2025-04-11T17:15:33.823

Link: CVE-2019-25072

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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