Vulnerability CVE-2017-12119
Published: 2018-01-19   Modified: 2018-01-20

Description:
An exploitable unhandled exception vulnerability exists in multiple APIs of CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC. Specially crafted JSON requests can cause an unhandled exception resulting in denial of service. An attacker can send malicious JSON to trigger this vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-754

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Ethereum -> Cpp-ethereum 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102475
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0471
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