{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00013998","kind":"vulnerability","title":"CometBFT Vote Extensions: Panic when receiving a Pre-commit with an invalid data","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-p7mv-53f2-4cwj"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for github.com/cometbft/cometbft. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-2f27dff51e3aaf055bad9000358a003f"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-2f27dff51e3aaf055bad9000358a003f","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p7mv-53f2-4cwj","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-p7mv-53f2-4cwj","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-02T02:21:29.477Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-2f27dff51e3aaf055bad9000358a003f"],"technology":"github.com/cometbft/cometbft","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"Name: ASA-2024-011: Vote Extensions: Panic when receiving a Pre-commit with an invalid data\nComponent: CometBFT\nCriticality: High (Considerable Impact, and Possible Likelihood per ACMv1.2)\nAffected versions: `>= 0.38.x`, unreleased `v1.x` and `main` development branches\nAffected users: Chain Builders + Maintainers, Validators\n\n### Impact\n\nA CometBFT node running in a network with [vote extensions][abci-spec] enabled could produce an invalid `Vote` message and send it to its peers. The invalid field of the `Vote` message is the `ValidatorIndex`, which identifies the sender in the `ValidatorSet` running that height of consensus. This field is ordinarily verified in the processing of `Vote` messages, but it turns out that in the case of a `Vote` message of type `Precommit` and for a non-`nil` `BlockID`, a logic was introduced before this ordinary verification to handle the attached vote extension. This introduced logic (not present in releases prior to `0.38.x`) does not d","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.38.0, < 0.38.15"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-02T10:00:37.195Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-02T22:06:24.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2024-11-06T15:33:55.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-02T02:21:29.477Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}