Denial of service in CPP-Ethereum - CVE-2017-12119
Published: January 12, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9963
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12119
CWE-ID: CWE-248
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in multiple APIs of CPP-Ethereum's JSON-RPC due to an insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can make a specially crafted JSON request, trigger a unhandled exception and cause the application to crash.
The weakness exists in multiple APIs of CPP-Ethereum's JSON-RPC due to an insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can make a specially crafted JSON request, trigger a unhandled exception and cause the application to crash.
Affected software
CPP-Ethereum
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12119
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any solutions addressing the vulnerability.