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 in crypto/ECKey.java. When a node syncs and mines a new block, arbitrary OS commands can be run on the server.

CVSS v3.0 NVD

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

2.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile

Published

2019-06-20

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• frohoff/ysoserial/9088★ · 2025-12-04

Security advisories

• ethereum/ethereumj/issues/1161
• frohoff/ysoserial
• advisories/GHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-2510