CVE-2018-19166 describes a remote denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Peercoin versions up to 0.6.4. An attacker with a small amount of stake can send invalid headers/blocks, causing the victim's disk to fill and leading to service disruption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:peercoin:peercoin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.