CVE-2018-1000070: Bitmessage Pybitmessage

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Bitmessage PyBitmessage version v0.6.2 (and introduced in or after commit 8ce72d8d2d25973b7064b1cf76a6b0b3d62f0ba0) contains a Eval injection vulnerability in main program, file src/messagetypes/__init__.py function constructObject that can result in Code Execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via remote attacker using a malformed message which must be processed by the victim - e.g. arrive from any sender on bitmessage network. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v0.6.3.

Affected products

• Bitmessage Pybitmessage: version 0.6.2 only

Published 2018-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.