CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-50428

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2023-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

In Bitcoin Core through 26.0 and Bitcoin Knots before 25.1.knots20231115, datacarrier size limits can be bypassed by obfuscating data as code (e.g., with OP_FALSE OP_IF), as exploited in the wild by Inscriptions in 2022 and 2023. NOTE: although this is a vulnerability from the perspective of the Bitcoin Knots project, some others consider it "not a bug."

Affected configurations

• bitcoin bitcoin core (>= 0.9 <= 26.0) • bitcoinknots bitcoin knots (>= 0.9 < 25.1)

References