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CVE-2018-15890
An issue was discovered in EthereumJ 1.8.2. There is Unsafe Deserialization in ois.readObject in mine/Ethash.java and decoder.readObject…
Critical9.8EPSS 2.9%
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in EthereumJ 1.8.2. There is Unsafe Deserialization in ois.readObject in mine/Ethash.java and decoder.readObject in crypto/ECKey.java. When a node syncs and mines a new block, arbitrary OS commands can be run on the server.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.ethereum:ethereumj-coreGHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj/issues/1161 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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