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CVE-2020-5232
Ethereum Name Service - Malicious takeover of previously owned ENS names
High8.7EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
A user who owns an ENS domain can set a trapdoor, allowing them to transfer ownership to another user, and later regain ownership without the new owners consent or awareness. A new ENS deployment is being rolled out that fixes this vulnerability in the ENS registry.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.7.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 0.4.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npm@ensdomains/ensGHSA-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://github.com/ensdomains/ens/security/advisories/GHSA-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ensdomains/ens/commit/36e10e71fcddcade88646821e0a57cc6c19e1ecf (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-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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