CVE-2020-26242 Denial of service in geth

2020-11-2501:25:15

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

45.8%

JSON

Go Ethereum, or “Geth”, is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.18, there is a Denial-of-service (crash) during block processing. This is fixed in 1.9.18.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "go-ethereum",
    "vendor": "ethereum",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 1.9.18"
      }
    ]
  }
]