CVE-2018-15890

CRITICAL

Ethereumj - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0078
EPSS Percentile 73.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-502
Status published

Affected Products (2)

ethereum/ethereumj
org.ethereum/ethereumj-core Maven

Timeline

Published Jun 20, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026