PT-2019-9750 · Reddcoin · Reddcoin

Published 2019-11-05 · Updated 2019-11-06 · CVE-2018-19164

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 Reddcoin versions through 2.1.0.5

Description The issue allows a remote denial of service, which can be exploited by an attacker who acquires a small amount of stake or coins in the system. The attacker can send invalid headers or blocks, which are then stored on the victim's disk.

Recommendations For versions through 2.1.0.5, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19164

Affected Products

Reddcoin

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19164 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19164 · 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