Klever-Go KVM: Throttler slot leak in trie account-data sync causes epoch bootstrap / state sync DoS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. In versions prior to 1.7.18, the account-data trie syncers are vulnerable to a resource-exhaustion flaw that leaks bounded throttler slots on error paths. In syncDataTrie() (in both userAccountsSyncer.go and kappAccountsSyncer.go), StartProcessing() reserves a slot from the NumGoRoutinesThrottler, but the corresponding EndProcessing() is only called on the success path and on the duplicate-root early return. As a result, any error from trie.NewTrie(), trie.NewTrieSyncer(), or trieSyncer.StartSyncing() (including the network-dependent timeout path) permanently consumes one slot for the lifetime of the throttler. An attacker who can repeatedly cause trie-node sync failures or timeouts during bootstrap can exhaust the bounded throttler, after which further account-data trie syncs stop making progress and SyncAccounts() returns a timeout. Because epoch bootstrap in syncUserAccountsState() and syncKappAccountsState() aborts on any such error, this causes bootstrap to fail, a core availability issue affecting fresh, restarting, or resyncing nodes and validators. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.18.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| klever-io | klever-go | before 1.7.18 | 1.7.18 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/klever-io/klever-go (Go) | before 1.7.18 | 1.7.18 | Patch available | GHSA-fw38-pc54-jvx9 |
- klever-go Vendorklever-io Affected before 1.7.18 Fixed in 1.7.18 Patch available CNA
- github.com/klever-io/klever-go (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.7.18 Fixed in 1.7.18 Patch available GHSA-fw38-pc54-jvx9
Remediation
- Fix · CNA klever-go (klever-io) Fixed in 1.7.18
- Fix · GHSA-fw38-pc54-jvx9 github.com/klever-io/klever-go (Go) Fixed in 1.7.18 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-49343
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fw38-pc54-jvx9
References
More klever-io vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-40253 Klever-Go: SFT add-quantity `int64` overflow bypasses a finite per-nonce MaxSupply CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-40252 Klever-Go: Percentage-transfer royalty skips the source debit at exactly-100% splits CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-58874 Klever-Go: /log controls global node logging CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-32588 Klever-Go MultiDataInterceptor: remote OOM via crafted compressed P2P payload CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-39560 Integer underflow in klever-io klever-go CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2026-58875 Resource allocation without limits in klever-io klever-go CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-49343 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-49343 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fw38-pc54-jvx9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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