Security advisory

{
  "id": "7365e018ed2ad8ab97770de3ae38257da760ab92ff4806fdf76ac17c5ae92034",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000070",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-1000070",
    "summary": "Bitmessage PyBitmessage version v0.6.2 (and introduced in or after commit 8ce72d8d2d25973b7064b1cf76a6b0b3d62f0ba0) contains a Eval injection vulnerability in main program, file src/messagetypes/__init__.py function constructObject that can result in Code Execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via remote attacker using a malformed message which must be processed by the victim - e.g. arrive from any sender on bitmessage network. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v0.6.3.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-1000070",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-1000070",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-1000070"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/bitmessage/pybitmessage",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "b304872b6824bdca60c4679c052277291d4001c0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b304872b6824bdca60c4679c052277291d4001c0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3a8016d31f517775d226aa8b902480f4a3a148a9"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:bitmessage:pybitmessage:0.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.6.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.6.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "3a8016d31f517775d226aa8b902480f4a3a148a9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.6.2",
            "v0.6.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000070.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:31.682609585Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/commit/3a8016d31f517775d226aa8b902480f4a3a148a9#comments"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-1000070",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380516,
  "published_at": "2018-03-13T15:29:00.283+00:00"
}