CVE-2016-10724

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Bitcoin Core en versiones anteriores a la v0.13.0 permite una denegación de servicio (DoS) desencadenada por el sistema de alertas de red remoto (obsoleto desde el primer trimestre de 2016) si un atacante puede firmar un mensaje con una clave privada determinada que sea conocida por actores no planeados debido a un mapa de tamaño infinito. Esto afecta a otros usos del código base, como Bitcoin Knots en versiones anteriores a la v0.13.0.knots20160814 y otros altcoins.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-06-24 CVE Reserved
2018-07-05 CVE Published
2023-06-29 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure	X_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension	X_refsource_misc
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures	2020-03-18

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Bitcoin Search vendor "Bitcoin"		Bitcoin Core Search vendor "Bitcoin" for product "Bitcoin Core"				< 0.13.0 Search vendor "Bitcoin" for product "Bitcoin Core" and version " < 0.13.0"		-		Affected
Bitcoin Search vendor "Bitcoin"		Bitcoin-qt Search vendor "Bitcoin" for product "Bitcoin-qt"				< 0.13.0 Search vendor "Bitcoin" for product "Bitcoin-qt" and version " < 0.13.0"		-		Affected
Bitcoin Search vendor "Bitcoin"		Bitcoind Search vendor "Bitcoin" for product "Bitcoind"				< 0.13.0 Search vendor "Bitcoin" for product "Bitcoind" and version " < 0.13.0"		-		Affected