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CVE-2021-45699 (GCVE-0-2021-45699)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-26 21:49 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:47
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Summary
An issue was discovered in the ckb crate before 0.40.0 for Rust. Remote attackers may be able to conduct a 51% attack against the Nervos CKB blockchain by triggering an inability to allocate memory for the misbehavior HashMap.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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