Vulnerability CVE-2018-17145
Published: 2020-09-10

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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

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
Namecoin -> Namecoin core 
Litecoin -> Litecoin 
Decred -> DCRD 
Btcd project -> BTCD 
Bitcoinknots -> Bitcoin knots 
Bitcoin -> Bitcoin core 
Bcoin -> Bcoin 

 References:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-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
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