PT-2019-9748 · Divi · Divi

Published 2019-11-05 · Updated 2019-11-06 · CVE-2018-19162

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 Divi versions prior to 4.0.6

Description The issue allows a remote denial of service. An attacker can exploit this by acquiring a small amount of stake or coins in the system and sending invalid headers or blocks, which are then stored on the victim's disk.

Recommendations For Divi versions prior to 4.0.6, update to version 4.0.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the storage of invalid headers or blocks to minimize the risk of disk space exhaustion.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19162

Affected Products

Divi

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19162 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19162 · Security Note
• https://medium.com/%40dsl_uiuc/fake-stake-attacks-on-chain-based-proof-of-stake-cryptocurrencies-b8b05723f806 · Note
• http://fc19.ifca.ai/preproceedings/180-preproceedings.pdf · Note