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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-11329

The DrugDealer function of a smart contract implementation for Ether Cartel, an Ethereum game, allows attackers to take over the contract's ownership, aka ceoAnyone.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.87%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.87%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The DrugDealer function of a smart contract implementation for Ether Cartel, an Ethereum game, allows attackers to take over the contract's ownership, aka ceoAnyone. After that, all the digital assets (including Ether balance and tokens) might be manipulated by the attackers, as exploited in the wild in May 2018.

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
0.87% probability · 59th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
ethercartel/ether cartel
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.87%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.9% 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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.