A vulnerability has been found in nanopool Claymore Dual Miner up to 7.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

nanopool Claymore Dual Miner version 7.3 and earlier contains a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in API that can result in RCE by abusing the remote manager API. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must run the miner with read/write mode enabled.

The bug was discovered 02/01/2018. The weakness was shared 02/09/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at reversebrain.github.io. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-1000049 since 02/05/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (44638).

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• Claymore Dual Miner

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• 7.0
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