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GHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in EthereumJ

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2018-15890

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.ethereum:ethereumj-core <= 1.12.0 no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

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