CVE-2018-17145

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.048 · 92 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.76% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

25 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USprimaryCWE-400US

affected products (25)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
bcoin bcoin< 1.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:bcoin:bcoin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bitcoin bitcoin core0.16.0 → 0.16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bitcoinknots bitcoin knots0.16.0 → 0.16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:bitcoinknots:bitcoin_knots:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.10.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.11.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.11.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.13.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.20.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.20.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
btcd project btcd= 0.8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:btcd_project:btcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jwBitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)2020-09-10ghsa · osvUS
There was an easily exploitable uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability that existed in the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and several alternative chains. For more details please see: https://invdos.net/ For the paper: https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-09-10modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

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