Vulnerability CVE-2018-20421


Published: 2018-12-23   Modified: 2018-12-24

Description:
Go Ethereum (aka geth) 1.8.19 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by rewriting the length of a dynamic array in memory, and then writing data to a single memory location with a large index number, as demonstrated by use of "assembly { mstore }" followed by a "c[0xC800000] = 0xFF" assignment.

Type:

CWE-770

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 -> Go ethereum 

 References:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/18289

Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top