CVE-2017-18350

medium

Description

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 have a stack-based buffer overflow if an attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy server is used. This results from an integer signedness error when the proxy server responds with an acknowledgement of an unexpected target domain name.

References

https://medium.com/%40lukedashjr/cve-2017-18350-disclosure-fe6d695f45d5

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-03-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00649