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CVE-2018-15890

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

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.

Affected products

• Ethereumj: 1.8.2

References

• https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj
• https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj/issues/1161
• https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/
• https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj
• https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj/issues/1161
• https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/

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