CVE-2018-19153

particl through 0.17 (a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency) allows a remote denial of service. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks. The attack requires no stake and can fill the victim's disk and RAM.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-11-05

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Particl (Particl)

References

• http://fc19.ifca.ai/preproceedings/180-preproceedings.pdf
• https://medium.com/%40dsl_uiuc/fake-stake-attacks-on-chain-based-proof-of-stake-cryptocurrencies-b8b05723f806