CVE-2018-17145
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
4
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://invdos.net (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
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-2020-1115 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-17145)Record last updated .