CVE-2017-20180

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-20180 · Published 06/03/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-20180 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting libzerocoin (zerocoin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2017-11-15 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libzerocoin zerocoin	`< 2017-11-15`	`2017-11-15`

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Zerocoin libzerocoin. Affected is the function CoinSpend::CoinSpend of the file CoinSpend.cpp of the component Proof Handler. The manipulation leads to insufficient verification of data authenticity. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The patch is identified as ce103a09ec079d0a0ed95475992348bed6e860de. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-222318 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

References

Zerocoin/libzerocoin commit ce103a0 · Patch
Zerocoin/libzerocoin#16 · Patch
vuldb.com · Permissions Required
vuldb.com · Third Party Advisory

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