PT-2019-9753 · Cloakcoin · Cloakcoin

Published 2019-11-05 · Updated 2019-11-06 · CVE-2018-19167

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 CloakCoin versions prior to 2.2.2.0

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 versions prior to 2.2.2.0, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent remote denial of service attacks.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19167

Affected Products

Cloakcoin

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19167 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19167 · 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