CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10724
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service (memory exhaustion) triggered by the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016) if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects other uses of the codebase, such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins.
Affected configurations
• bitcoin bitcoin core (< 0.13.0)
• bitcoin bitcoin-qt (< 0.13.0)
• bitcoin bitcoind (< 0.13.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure bitcoin.org
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension github.com
- https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure bitcoin.org
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension github.com
- https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html Third Party Advisory