CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20587
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 through 0.17.1 and Bitcoin Knots 0.12.0 through 0.17.x before 0.17.1.knots20181229 have Incorrect Access Control. Local users can exploit this to steal currency by binding the RPC IPv4 localhost port, and forwarding requests to the IPv6 localhost port.
Affected configurations
• bitcoin bitcoin core (>= 0.12.0 <= 0.17.1)
• bitcoinknots bitcoin knots (>= 0.12.0 <= 0.17.0)
References
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-20587 Third Party Advisory
- https://medium.com/%40lukedashjr/cve-2018-20587-advisory-and-full-disclosure-a3105551e78b medium.com
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-20587 Third Party Advisory
- https://medium.com/%40lukedashjr/cve-2018-20587-advisory-and-full-disclosure-a3105551e78b medium.com