Description
The determineWinner function of a smart contract implementation for HashHeroes Tiles, an Ethereum game, uses a certain blockhash value in an attempt to generate a random number for the case where NUM_TILES equals the number of people who purchased a tile, which allows an attacker to control the awarding of the prize by being the last person to purchase a tile.
Published: 2018-12-26
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-9726 The determineWinner function of a smart contract implementation for HashHeroes Tiles, an Ethereum game, uses a certain blockhash value in an attempt to generate a random number for the case where NUM_TILES equals the number of people who purchased a tile, which allows an attacker to control the awarding of the prize by being the last person to purchase a tile.
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Hashheroes Hashheroes
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:01:14.926Z

Reserved: 2018-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-17987

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-26T21:29:00.997

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:55:20.247

Link: CVE-2018-17987

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