CVE-2017-20180
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Zerocoin libzerocoin.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.31% probability · 23th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-345
- Affected
- zerocoin/libzerocoin
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 0.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin/commit/ce103a09ec079d0a0ed95475992348bed6e860dePatch
- https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin/pull/16Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.222318Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.222318Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin/commit/ce103a09ec079d0a0ed95475992348bed6e860dePatch
- https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin/pull/16Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.222318Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.222318Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.