CVE-2018-17144

high

Description

Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.

References

https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3.knots20180918/doc/release-notes.md

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3/doc/release-notes.md

https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17144

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-19

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High