CVE-2018-17145 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2018-17145

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bcoin, bitcoin core, bitcoin knots, btcd, dcrd, litecoin, namecoin core
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.16.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.20.0, 0.20.1

Timeline

Official Publish: September 10th, 2020
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.