High
Security advisory
emercoin through 0.7 (a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency) allows a remote denial of service. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks. The attack requires no stake and can fill the victim's disk and RAM.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19152
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
emercoin through 0.7 (a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency) allows a remote denial of service. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks. The attack requires no stake and can fill the victim's disk and RAM.
osv:CVE-2018-19152
Complete source record
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