CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26240
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-682
Description
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch (estimated early January, 2021). This happened on the ETC chain on 2020-11-06. This issue is relevant only for miners, non-mining nodes are unaffected. This issue is fixed as of 1.9.24
Affected configurations
• ethereum go ethereum (< 1.9.24)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-682 Incorrect Calculation weakness
References
- https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release/ Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/d990df909d7839640143344e79356754384dcdd0 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/21793 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-v592-xf75-856p Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release/ Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/d990df909d7839640143344e79356754384dcdd0 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/21793 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-v592-xf75-856p Third Party Advisory