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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWhmNHAtam03ci12ampq

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in EthereumJ

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWhmNHAtam03ci12ampq
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: over 5 years ago
Updated: almost 2 years ago


CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.00566
EPSS Percentile: 0.78307

Identifiers: GHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj, CVE-2018-15890
References: Repository: https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj
Blast Radius: 1.0

Affected Packages

maven:org.ethereum:ethereumj-core
Affected Version Ranges: <= 1.12.0
No known fixed version