{"id":"CVE-2018-10705","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-10705","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:18:39.035Z","title":"The Owned smart contract implementation for Aurora DAO (AURA), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows attackers to acquire contract ownership because the setOwner function is declared as public.","description":"The Owned smart contract implementation for Aurora DAO (AURA), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows attackers to acquire contract ownership because the setOwner function is declared as public. An attacker can then conduct a lockBalances() denial of service attack.","published":"2018-05-09T03:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:34:33.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["auroradao/aura"],"epss":{"score":0.01071,"percentile":0.64702,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.07%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://peckshield.com/2018/05/03/ownerAnyone/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://peckshield.com/2018/05/03/ownerAnyone/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10705","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}