Overview
- Description
- Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. This is a Consensus vulnerability in Geth before version 1.9.17 which can be used to cause a chain-split where vulnerable nodes reject the canonical chain. Geth's pre-compiled dataCopy (at 0x00...04) contract did a shallow copy on invocation. An attacker could deploy a contract that writes X to an EVM memory region R, then calls 0x00..04 with R as an argument, then overwrites R to Y, and finally invokes the RETURNDATACOPY opcode. When this contract is invoked, a consensus-compliant node would push X on the EVM stack, whereas Geth would push Y. This is fixed in version 1.9.17.
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.1
- Impact score
- 4.2
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.5
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- security-advisories@github.com
- CWE-682
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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