CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12117

8.1 HIGH Published 2018-01-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-863

Description

An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in miner_start API of cpp-ethereum's JSON-RPC (commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768). A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• ethereum cpp-ethereum

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References