CVE-2016-10724 Information

Description

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service (memory exhaustion) triggered by the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016) if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors because of an infinitely sized map. This affects other uses of the codebase such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5