CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4447
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
The "encrypt wallet" feature in wxBitcoin and bitcoind 0.4.x before 0.4.1, and 0.5.0rc, does not properly interact with the deletion functionality of BSDDB, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain unencrypted private keys from Bitcoin wallet files by bypassing the BSDDB interface and reading entries that are marked for deletion.
Affected configurations
• bitcoin bitcoin core 0.4.0
• bitcoin bitcoin core 0.4.1
• bitcoin bitcoin core 0.5.0
• bitcoin wxbitcoin 0.4.0
• bitcoin wxbitcoin 0.4.1
• bitcoin wxbitcoin 0.5.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2011/11/21/v0.5.0.html bitcoin.org
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51474.0 bitcointalk.org
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51604.0 bitcointalk.org
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs Vendor Advisory
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2011/11/21/v0.5.0.html bitcoin.org
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51474.0 bitcointalk.org
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51604.0 bitcointalk.org
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs Vendor Advisory