CVE-2018-19833

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The owned function of a smart contract implementation for DDQ, an tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows attackers to change the owner of the contract, because the function does not check the caller's identity.

Affected products

Ddq Project Ddq: all versions

References

https://github.com/SmartContractResearcher/SmartContractSecurity/blob/master/New%20Vulnerabilities%20Allow%20Anyone%20to%20Own%20Certain%20ERC20-Based%20Smart%20Contracts%28CVE-2018-19830%2C%20CVE-2018-19831%2C%20CVE-2018-19832%2C%20CVE-2018-19833%2C%20CVE-2018-19834%29/README.md
https://github.com/SmartContractResearcher/SmartContractSecurity/blob/master/New%20Vulnerabilities%20Allow%20Anyone%20to%20Own%20Certain%20ERC20-Based%20Smart%20Contracts%28CVE-2018-19830%2C%20CVE-2018-19831%2C%20CVE-2018-19832%2C%20CVE-2018-19833%2C%20CVE-2018-19834%29/README.md

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