CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-40769
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-18
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-338
Description
profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.
Affected configurations
• profanity project profanity (<= 1.60)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
References
- https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/johguse/profanity Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/johguse/profanity Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory