Consensus Failure and Double Spending Vulnerability in Electric Coin Company Zcashd

Consensus Failure and Double Spending Vulnerability in Electric Coin Company Zcashd

CVE-2020-8806 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1 allows attackers to trigger consensus failure and double spending. A valid chain could be incorrectly rejected because timestamp requirements on block headers were not properly enforced.

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