CVE-2018-15890

CRITICAL LAB

EthereumJ - Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Deserialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Product x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj/issues/1161

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0296
EPSS Percentile 85.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Lab Environment

COMMUNITY
Community Lab
docker pull eclipse-temurin:8-jdk-alpine

Details

CWE
CWE-502
Status published
Products (2)
ethereum/ethereumj 1.8.2
org.ethereum/ethereumj-core 0Maven
Published Jun 20, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026