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CVE-2012-4684

N/A
Published: March 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC
4 products affected across 1 vendorBitcoin CoreBitcoin QtWxbitcoin

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (4)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148109.0
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.0
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-4684
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399

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