Medium (5.3) in consensys discovery. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in tech.pegasys.discovery:discovery 0.4.5.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)