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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Ethereum 1.12.2. This affects the function _transfer. The manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-51426. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Ethereum 1.12.2. Affected by this issue is the function _transfer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Insecure Permissions vulnerability in Ethereum v.1.12.2 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the _transfer function.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-51426 since 10/28/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/04/2024). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

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

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• 1.12.2

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