CVE-2024-23688: Consensys Discovery

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Consensys Discovery versions less than 0.4.5 uses the same AES/GCM nonce for the entire session. which should ideally be unique for every message. The node's private key isn't compromised, only the session key generated for specific peer communication is exposed.

Affected products

• Consensys Discovery: before 0.4.5 (fixed in 0.4.5)

Published 2024-01-19. Last modified 2026-07-14.