CVE-2014-4503

medium
Published 2014-07-23 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The parse_notify function in util.c in sgminer before 4.2.2 and cgminer 3.3.0 through 4.0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (application exit) via a crafted (1) bbversion, (2) prev_hash, (3) nbit, or (4) ntime parameter in a mining.notify action stratum message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sgminer_projectsgminer{"endIncluding":"4.2.1"}
sgminer_projectsgminer4.0.0
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.0
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.153
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.242
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.271
sgminer_projectsgminer4.2.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.3.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.3.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.3.2
cgminer_projectcgminer3.3.3
cgminer_projectcgminer3.3.4
cgminer_projectcgminer3.4.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.4.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.4.2
cgminer_projectcgminer3.4.3
cgminer_projectcgminer3.5.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.5.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.6.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.6.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.6.2
cgminer_projectcgminer3.6.3
cgminer_projectcgminer3.6.4
cgminer_projectcgminer3.7.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.7.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.7.2
cgminer_projectcgminer3.8.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.8.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.8.2
cgminer_projectcgminer3.8.3
cgminer_projectcgminer3.8.4
cgminer_projectcgminer3.8.5
cgminer_projectcgminer3.9.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.10.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.11.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.12.0
cgminer_projectcgminer3.12.1
cgminer_projectcgminer3.12.2
cgminer_projectcgminer3.12.3
cgminer_projectcgminer4.0.0
cgminer_projectcgminer4.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.