Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)

Also known as GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw

Published 6 y ago 2020-09-10 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.1 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

4.8%

percentile 92%

Public exploits

none known

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

4.76% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.1	7.5	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	5.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`
GitHub	3.1	7.5	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	`bcoin`	<1.0.2	1.0.2

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com /bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
en.bitcoin.it /wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
invdos.net /paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
invdos.net · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
github.com /bcoin-org/bcoin/security/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw · web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17145 · advisory
github.com /bcoin-org/bcoin · package

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-17145
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw
NVD: CVE-2018-17145

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Summary