CVE-2023-50428

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

09/12/2023

Last modified:

02/08/2024

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."

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core::::::::	0.9 (including)	26.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoinknots:bitcoin_knots::::::::	0.9 (including)	25.1 (excluding)

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

CVE-2023-50428

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools