CVE-2018-19151

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5

Description

qtum through 0.16 (a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency) allows a remote denial of service. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks. The attack requires no stake and can fill the victim's disk and RAM.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-19151

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2019-10-29T20:15:10

Last Modified Date
2019-11-06T19:49:19

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-400	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qtum:qtum::::::::	1	OR		0.16

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.5

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://medium.com/@dsl_uiuc/fake-stake-attacks-on-chain-based-proof-of-stake-cryptocurrencies-b8b05723f806	Third Party Advisory
http://fc19.ifca.ai/preproceedings/180-preproceedings.pdf	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19151
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19151

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:00:00				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 05:11:00	2019-10-29T20:15Z	2019-10-29T20:15:10	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-04 05:11:00		2019-11-06T19:49:19	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-04 05:11:00		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated