CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17145
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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 configurations
• bcoin bcoin (< 1.0.2)
• bitcoin bitcoin core (>= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2)
• bitcoinknots bitcoin knots (>= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2)
• btcd project btcd 0.3.0
• btcd project btcd 0.3.1
• btcd project btcd 0.3.2
• btcd project btcd 0.3.3
• btcd project btcd 0.4.0
• btcd project btcd 0.5.0
• btcd project btcd 0.6.0
• btcd project btcd 0.7.0
• btcd project btcd 0.8.0
• btcd project btcd 0.9.0
• btcd project btcd 0.10.0
• btcd project btcd 0.11.0
• btcd project btcd 0.11.1
• btcd project btcd 0.12.0
• btcd project btcd 0.13.0
• btcd project btcd 0.20.0
• btcd project btcd 0.20.1
• decred dcrd (< 1.5.2)
• litecoin litecoin (>= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2)
• namecoin namecoin core (>= 0.16.0 < 0.16.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://invdos.net Third Party Advisory
- https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://invdos.net Third Party Advisory
- https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory