SCA: security update for github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum (GHSA-p5gc-957x-gfw9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417306

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- The GetBlockHeadersMsg handler in the LES protocol implementation in Go Ethereum (aka geth) before 1.8.11
may lead to an access violation because of an integer signedness error for the array index, which allows
attackers to launch a Denial of Service attack by sending a packet with a -1 query.Skip value. The
vulnerable remote node would be crashed by such an attack immediately, aka the EPoD (Ethereum Packet of
Death) issue. (CVE-2018-12018)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417306

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12018

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12018

cwe: CWE-129

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