Security advisory

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  "id": "1cd5ebebb6a212ac88c8b4df8f5b3db3f02ec0d66d3ea31d5e614e16128d05a7",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15890",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-15890",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in EthereumJ 1.8.2. There is Unsafe Deserialization in ois.readObject in mine/Ethash.java and decoder.readObject in crypto/ECKey.java. When a node syncs and mines a new block, arbitrary OS commands can be run on the server.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-15890",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-15890",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-15890",
        "GHSA-hf4p-jm7r-vjjj"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "17418b7bfe6c522895e84f9c44fe6e17405c5767"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "17418b7bfe6c522895e84f9c44fe6e17405c5767"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:ethereumj:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.8.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.8.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.8.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15890.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:21.212393744Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj/issues/1161",
        "https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj",
        "https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-15890",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381591,
  "published_at": "2019-06-20T17:15:09.8+00:00"
}