CVE-2018-17145
Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.77%
Description
There was an easily exploitable uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability that existed in the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and several alternative chains. For more details please see: https://invdos.net/ For the paper: https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf
How to fix CVE-2018-17145
To remediate CVE-2018-17145, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
Is CVE-2018-17145 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.0.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |