PT-2019-9739 · Htmlcoin · Htmlcoin

Published 2019-11-05 · Updated 2019-11-06 · CVE-2018-19154

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 HTMLCOIN versions prior to 2.13

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 HTMLCOIN versions prior to 2.13, update to version 2.13 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19154

Affected Products

Htmlcoin

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19154 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19154 · Security Note
• 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