CVE-2018-17145 Information

Description

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies e.g. if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_ExposuresCVE-2018-17145 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md https://invdos.net https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5