Home
» Security vulnerabilities
» CVE-2017-12119
An exploitable unhandled exception vulnerability exists in multiple APIs of CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC. Specially crafted JSON requests can cause an unhandled exception resulting in denial of service. An attacker can send malicious JSON to trigger this vulnerability.
NVD Status： Modified ，CVE State: published
Threat Intelligence & Risk Assessment for CVE-2017-12119
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2017-12119 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.6/100) : CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.55%).Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB).Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2017-12119
EDB-ID
Source
Kind
Published
Link
—
nvd_ref
exploit_tag
Exploit-DB ↗
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-12119
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
#
Date
Old EPSS score
New EPSS score
Delta (New - Old)
1
2025-12-15
0.44%
0.55%
+0.11%
2
2025-03-30
0.52%
0.44%
-0.08%
3
2025-03-29
—
0.52%
—
Full EPSS history
(8 records total)
Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2017-12119
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
Base score
Version
Severity
Vector
Exploitability
Impact
Score source
7.5
3.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
3.9
3.6
[email protected]
7.5
3.0
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
3.9
3.6
[email protected]
5.0
2.0
MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0
2.9
[email protected]
Weakness enumeration for CVE-2017-12119
Affected software / configurations for CVE-2017-12119
Vendor
Product
Version
Raw CPE
ethereum
cpp-ethereum
—
cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:cpp-ethereum:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References for CVE-2017-12119
cvelogic
Threat Intelligence