- Parity technologies moves swiftly to fix the security breach.
- “We recommend everyone to update their nodes immediately,” Parity said in a tweet.
One of Ethereum developers, Parity Technologies had suffered a security breach according to a blog post that was published on February 3. The infrastructure developer for Ethereum notified the community following the discovery of the loophole that would have allowed an attacker to shut down nodes running its client. A section of the blog post said:
“On February 3rd, we received several reports that an attacker can send a specially-crafted RPC request to a public Parity Ethereum node (any version pre 2.2.9-stable and pre 2.3.2-beta) and that node will crash.”
Parity technology moved swiftly to fix the issue and later confirmed via social media that they had fixed the vulnerability. However, all the affected versions were required to update their software. The tweet said:
“While the vulnerability only directly affects Parity Ethereum nodes that serve JSONRPC as a public service (e.g., Infura, [MyEtherWallet], MyCrypto, etc), we recommend everyone to update their nodes immediately.”
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