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CVE-2018-17145 json

Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw , EUVD-2020-1115

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • npm bcoin 1.0.2
  • bcoin bcoin 1.0.2
  • bitcoin bitcoin_core 0.16.2
  • bitcoinknots bitcoin_knots 0.16.2
  • decred dcrd 1.5.2
  • litecoin litecoin 0.16.2
  • namecoin namecoin_core 0.16.2

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Exploit prediction

4.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • invdos.net https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm bcoin
<1.0.2
1.0.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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