Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-15890 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Ethereum Ethereumj 1.8.2

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
ethereum
CWE-502
critical

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Ethereum
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)