CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-15947
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-312
Description
In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data unencrypted in memory. Upon a crash, it may dump a core file. If a user were to mishandle a core file, an attacker can reconstruct the user's wallet.dat file, including their private keys, via a grep "6231 0500" command.
Affected configurations
• bitcoin bitcoin core 0.18.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness
References
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2019-15947 Not Applicable
- https://gist.github.com/oxagast/50a121b2df32186e0c48411859d5861b Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16824 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-18 Third Party Advisory
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2019-15947 Not Applicable
- https://gist.github.com/oxagast/50a121b2df32186e0c48411859d5861b Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16824 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-18 Third Party Advisory