PT-2019-9737 · Emercoin · Emercoin

Published 2019-11-05 · Updated 2019-11-06 · CVE-2018-19152

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Emercoin versions prior to 0.8

Description The issue allows a remote denial of service. An attacker can send invalid headers or blocks, which requires no stake and can fill the victim's disk and RAM.

Recommendations For Emercoin versions prior to 0.8, update to version 0.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19152

Affected Products

Emercoin

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19152 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19152 · Vendor Advisory
• http://fc19.ifca.ai/preproceedings/180-preproceedings.pdf · Note
• https://medium.com/%40dsl_uiuc/fake-stake-attacks-on-chain-based-proof-of-stake-cryptocurrencies-b8b05723f806 · Note