Denial of Service in ethereumjs-vm

Also known as GHSA-2mw7-wggm-m6w3

Published 7 y ago 2018-11-12 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.1 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

3.1%

percentile 88%

Public exploits

none known

ethereumjs-vm 2.4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (vm.runCode failure and REVERT) via a "code: Buffer.from(my_code, 'hex')" attribute. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because REVERT is a normal bytecode that can be triggered from high-level source code, leading to a normal programmatic execution result.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.10% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% 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	`ethereumjs-vm`	<=2.4.0	no fix listed

Classification

Weakness

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

github.com /ethereumjs/ethereumjs-vm/issues/386 · x_transferred
github.com /ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo/issues/395#issuecomment-472449204 · x_transferred
github.com /ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo/issues/386#issuecomment-439372074 · x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19183 · advisory
github.com /advisories/GHSA-2mw7-wggm-m6w3 · advisory
github.com /ethereumjs/ethereumjs-vm · package

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-19183
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-2mw7-wggm-m6w3
NVD: CVE-2018-19183

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