Bug 2209800 (CVE-2018-20587)

Summary:	CVE-2018-20587 bitcoin: Incorrect Access Control
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Patrick Del Bello 2023-05-24 20:39:26 UTC

Source: bitcoin
X-Debbugs-CC: team.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for bitcoin.

CVE-2018-20587[0]:
| Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 through 0.17.1 and Bitcoin Knots 0.12.0 through
| 0.17.x before 0.17.1.knots20181229 have Incorrect Access Control.
| Local users can exploit this to steal currency by binding the RPC IPv4
| localhost port, and forwarding requests to the IPv6 localhost port.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-20587


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20587
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20587

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2023-05-24 20:40:29 UTC

Created bitcoin-core tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2209802]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2209801]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-25 01:41:39 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.