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CVE-2020-26242 (GCVE-0-2020-26242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-25 01:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:56
VLAI
Title
Denial of service in geth
Summary
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.18, there is a Denial-of-service (crash) during block processing. This is fixed in 1.9.18.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial-of-service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ethereum go-ethereum Affected: < 1.9.18
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