7.5

CVE-2018-17145: bcoin Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Modified
AliasesGHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw
Published 10-09-2020Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-17145 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in bcoin. EPSS estimates a 4.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.76%
0%100%
Low · +0.67 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 10-09-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.76%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.67 pp

From 4.09% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (invdos.net)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Bcoin1 product
Bitcoin1 product
Bitcoinknots1 product
Btcd_project1 product
  • btcd0.3.0:alpha | 0.3.1:alpha | 0.3.2:alpha | 0.3.3:alpha | 0.4.0:alpha | 0.5.0:alpha | 0.6.0:alpha | 0.7.0:alpha | 0.8.0:beta | 0.9.0:beta | 0.10.0:beta | 0.11.0:beta | 0.11.1:beta | 0.12.0:beta | 0.13.0:beta | 0.13.0:beta2 | 0.20.0:beta | 0.20.1:beta
Decred1 product
Litecoin1 product
Namecoin1 product
Npm1 product
  • bcoin< 1.0.2

8 vendors · 8 products

References

7 links