CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-3195

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-01-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-01-26
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:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

bitcoind in Bitcoin Core through 0.21.0 can create a new file in an arbitrary directory (e.g., outside the ~/.bitcoin directory) via a dumpwallet RPC call. NOTE: this reportedly does not violate the security model of Bitcoin Core, but can violate the security model of a fork that has implemented dumpwallet restrictions

Affected configurations

• bitcoin bitcoin core (<= 0.21.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References