Trail of Bits

Ava Labs AvalancheGo

Type

Security review

Client

Ava Labs

Date

2025-08

Domain

Blockchain

Effort

10 wks

Section

Avalanche

Trail of Bits's security review of Ava Labs (Aug 2025) identified 5 issues: 5 informational.

Findings · 5

  1. 1 Unbounded recursion in codec allows stack overflow via deeply nested structs Informational
  2. 2 Lack of lower bound on range proof request bytes limit enables denial of service Informational
  3. 3 LevelDB prone to panic from poor construction Informational
  4. 4 TOCTOU in the perms package Create method Informational
  5. 5 API server does not limit large request body sizes Informational

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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