Description
A user who owns an ENS domain can set a trapdoor, allowing them to transfer ownership to another user, and later regain ownership without the new owners consent or awareness. A new ENS deployment is being rolled out that fixes this vulnerability in the ENS registry.
Published: 2020-01-30
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-0255 A user who owns an ENS domain can set a trapdoor, allowing them to transfer ownership to another user, and later regain ownership without the new owners consent or awareness. A new ENS deployment is being rolled out that fixes this vulnerability in the ENS registry.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h Malicious takeover of previously owned ENS names
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00601}

epss

{'score': 0.00784}


Subscriptions

Ens.domains Ethereum Name Service
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T08:22:09.005Z

Reserved: 2020-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-5232

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-31T00:15:09.973

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:33:43.693

Link: CVE-2020-5232

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Weaknesses