What is CVE-2018-19152?

CVE-2018-19152 is a high-severity vulnerability in Emercoin, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-11-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-19152?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Emercoin

CVE-2018-19152

emercoin through 0.7 (a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency) allows a remote denial of service. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks. The attack requires no stake and can fill the victim's disk and RAM.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.013 (67.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Emercoin
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19152?: CVE-2018-19152 is a high-severity vulnerability in Emercoin, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-11-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-19152?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.