CVE-2018-17145
published 2020-09-10CVE-2018-17145: 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…
PriorityP339high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
3.41%
87.4th percentile
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.
Affected
24 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcoin | bcoin | < 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 |
| bcoin | bcoin | >= 0 < 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | >= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 |
| bitcoinknots | bitcoin_knots | >= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| btcd_project | btcd | — | — |
| decred | dcrd | < 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 |
| litecoin | litecoin | >= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 |
| namecoin | namecoin_core | >= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
ghsa7.5HIGH
osv7.5HIGH
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GHSA
Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
ghsa·2020-09-10·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-17145 [HIGH] CWE-400 Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
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
OSV
Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
osv·2020-09-10·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-17145 [HIGH] Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)
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
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.mdhttps://invdos.nethttps://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdfhttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.mdhttps://invdos.nethttps://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf
2020-09-10
Published