PT-2018-9256 · Bitmessage · Pybitmessage

Peter Surda · Published 2018-03-13 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-1000070

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PyBitmessage version v0.6.2

Description: The issue concerns a code execution vulnerability due to an eval injection in the main program, specifically in the constructObject function within the file src/messagetypes/ init .py. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker sending a malformed message to the victim over the Bitmessage network. The issue was fixed in version v0.6.3.

Recommendations: For PyBitmessage version v0.6.2, update to version v0.6.3 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000070

Affected Products

Pybitmessage

References · 3

• https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/commit/3a8016d31f517775d226aa8b902480f4a3a148a9#comments · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000070 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000070 · Security Note