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High · 7.5 CVE-2018-17145 EUVD-2020-1115GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw

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

Published Sep 10, 2020 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm bcoin < 1.0.2 1.0.2 GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw

References