CVE-2018-17144

high-risk
Published 2018-09-19

Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.

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51.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 49% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Bitcoin Knots

Affected Vendors

Bitcoin Bitcoinknots

References (10)

Vendor Advisory https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/
Third Party Advisory https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17144
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension
Patch https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3/doc/release-notes.md
Patch https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3.knots20180918/doc/release-n...
Vendor Advisory https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/
Third Party Advisory https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17144
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension
Patch https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3/doc/release-notes.md
Patch https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3.knots20180918/doc/release-n...
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high-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 18/34 · Moderate
Exposure 7/34 · Low