CVE-2018-18920

Summary

CVECVE-2018-18920
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-12 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-02-04 13:31:00 UTC
DescriptionPy-EVM v0.2.0-alpha.33 allows attackers to make a vm.execute_bytecode call that triggers computation._stack.values with '"stack": [100, 100, 0]' where b'\x' was expected, resulting in an execution failure because of an invalid opcode. This is reportedly related to "smart contracts can be executed indefinitely without gas being paid."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ethereum Py-evm 0.2.0 alpha.33 All All
Application Ethereum Py-evm 0.2.0 alpha.33 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
JavaScript is not available. MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
vbuterin comments on Netta labs claim to have found a vulnerability in EVM, what are your thoughts? MISC www.reddit.com Third Party Advisory
Invalid values like 100, 0 occurs in Stack during the execution. · Issue #1448 · ethereum/py-evm · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Alex.eth na Twitterze: "@VitalikButerin just commented on this via reddit: https://t.co/EoKMDdykzq… " MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980839 Python (pip) Security Update for py-evm (GHSA-vqgp-4jgj-5j64)

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