cve-2020-26240
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-25 01:25
Modified
2024-08-04 15:56
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch (estimated early January, 2021). This happened on the ETC chain on 2020-11-06. This issue is relevant only for miners, non-mining nodes are unaffected. This issue is fixed as of 1.9.24
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ | ethereum | go-ethereum |
Version: < 1.9.24 |
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