NRDAX-T0171 - Nil Node Dereference Panic

compute_amp · active · first seen 2026-07-02

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2020-26264: a crafted LES GetProofsV2 storage-proof request (non-empty AccKey for a non-existent account) dereferences a nil account trie in the les server's GetProofsV2 handler → panic/crash (get

instances (2)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
ethereum	geth_les_getproofsv2_dos	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	geth_les_getproofsv2_dos	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26264 ↗
ethereum	geth_snap_trienode_dos	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	geth_snap_trienode_dos	https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-59hh-656j-3p7v ↗

references

vendor-advisory: GHPR-ElementsProject-lightning-8780

vendor-advisory: GHPR-Fantom-foundation-go-opera-127

vendor-advisory: GHPR-Fantom-foundation-go-opera-250

vendor-advisory: GHPR-Fantom-foundation-go-opera-254

vendor-advisory: GHPR-btcsuite-btcd-2273

vendor-advisory: GHPR-filecoin-project-venus-5454

vendor-advisory: GHPR-osmosis-labs-osmosis-9467

vendor-advisory: GHREL-Fantom-foundation-go-opera-v1.1.0-rc.3

related (compute_amp)

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cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0171

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0171.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0171,
  title = {Nil Node Dereference Panic (NRDAX-T0171)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0171},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0171",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Nil Node Dereference Panic (NRDAX-T0171)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0171",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}