CVE-2018-15890
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 2.9% (pctl 87)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
An issue was discovered in EthereumJ 1.8.2. There is Unsafe Deserialization in ois.readObject in mine/Ethash.java and decoder.readObject in crypto/ECKey.java. When a node syncs and mines a new block, arbitrary OS commands can be run on the server.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 2.92% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-502 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2019-06-20 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| ethereum | ethereumj |
References
→ the Explorer · watch your stack · NVD