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CVE-2012-4684

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
12/03/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The alert functionality in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.7.0 supports different character representations of the same signature data, but relies on a hash of this signature, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a valid modified signature for a circulating alert.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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