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CVE-2015-20112
RLPx 5 has two CTR streams based on the same key, IV, and nonce. This can facilitate decryption on a private network.
- 3.4LowCVSS base score
- 0.17%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 94% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
RLPx 5 has two CTR streams based on the same key, IV, and nonce. This can facilitate decryption on a private network.
Timeline
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Low3.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.17% · top 94% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.4.
Affected products
References
5
- https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/7926 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/1315 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/rlpx.md#known-issues-in-the-current-version (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/LaurentMT/go-ethereum/commit/e8cba7283b57280b1bcf5761478f852398365901 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/issues/32 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-9392 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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