High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in EOS.IO DAWN 4.2. plugins/net_plugin/net_plugin.cpp does not limit the number of P2P connections from the same source IP address.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11548
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in EOS.IO DAWN 4.2. plugins/net_plugin/net_plugin.cpp does not limit the number of P2P connections from the same source IP address.
osv:CVE-2018-11548
Complete source record
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