CVE-2019-25220

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Attend

*SSVC

Descriptions

Bitcoin Core before 24.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a flood of low-difficulty header chains (aka a "Chain Width Expansion" attack) because a node does not first verify that a presented chain has enough work before committing to store it.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

CISAv3.1 7.5

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Attend

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Yes

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2024-11-18 CVE Reserved
2024-11-18 CVE Published
2024-11-18 CVE Updated
2024-11-18 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/09/18/disclose-headers-oom
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-October/017354.html

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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

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