A vulnerability report was released highlighting an attack that could have taken down the entire Avalanche Network.
The report
When Szilagyi discovered the vulnerability on March 29, he suggested to Avalanche they push through a patch to fix it. The team responded quickly, patching the vulnerability that same day.In other words, a malicious attacker could have funded an Avalanchefor roughly $179,000, sent out malicious PeerList packages to other nodes, and effectively taken down the network.
Szilagyi provided more details, writing, “Avalanche is very relaxed on the network connections it makes, and even a single connection is enough to take down a node.” “Since all nodes in the network connect to all validators, it's pretty much an insta-death for the entire network,” he added
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