CVE-2020-26240 — Erroneous Proof of Work calculation in geth
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 …
Published: 2020-11-25 · CVSS: 5.3 · CVSS 3.1
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
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7