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CVE-2018-18206

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18206 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Bytom clients prior to version 1.0.6, where a flaw in the checkTopicRegister function within p2p/discover/net.go allows for negative index values, leading to a denial-of-service crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-exploitable attack with low complexity and high impact on availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bytom:bytom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0145 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/bytom/bytomFixed in: 1.0.6

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-vc3x-gx6c-g99fhigh

Denial of Service in Bytom

Feb 15, 2022

References

github.com / Bytom/bytom/commit/1ac3c8ac4f2b1e1df9675228290bda6b9586ba42
PatchVendor Advisory