CVE-2018-20421

HIGH

Go Ethereum - Denial of Service via Dynamic Array Memory Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Go Ethereum (aka geth) 1.8.19 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by rewriting the length of a dynamic array in memory, and then writing data to a single memory location with a large index number, as demonstrated by use of "assembly { mstore }" followed by a "c[0xC800000] = 0xFF" assignment.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/18289

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0146
EPSS Percentile 70.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (1)
ethereum/go_ethereum 1.8.19
Published Dec 24, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026