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

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 10, 2020 in bcoin-org/bcoin • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm bcoin (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.0.2

Patched versions

1.0.2

Description

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

References

@braydonf braydonf published to bcoin-org/bcoin Sep 10, 2020
Reviewed Sep 10, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 10, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.675%
(80th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-17145

GHSA ID

GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw

Source code

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