Denial of Service in ethereumjs-vm · CVE-2018-19183 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Denial of Service in ethereumjs-vm

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 21, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

ethereumjs-vm (npm)

Affected versions

<= 2.4.0

Patched versions

None

Description

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 21, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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