Z-NOMP before 2018-04-05 has an incorrect Equihash...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 14, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 2, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 9, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 14, 2022
Last updated
Feb 2, 2023
Z-NOMP before 2018-04-05 has an incorrect Equihash solution verifier that allows attackers to spoof mining shares, as demonstrated by providing a solution with {x1=1,x2=1,x3=1,...,x512=1} to bypass this verifier for any blockheader. This originally affected (for example) the Bitcoin Gold and Zcash cryptocurrencies, and continued to be exploited in the wild in May 2018 against smaller cryptocurrencies.
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