CVE-2018-17144 — Bitcoin Core 0
Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt cras
Published
2018-09-19T08:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T10:39:59.599Z
01What is this vulnerability?
Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.
02Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|
| n | a / n/a | n/a |
03Active exploitation status
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
04Recommended remediation
- Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
- Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
- Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.
05Technical details
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
06Detection signatures
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07Related CVEs
No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.
08Timeline
- Published: 2018-09-19T08:00:00.000Z
- Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:39:59.599Z
09References
- en.bitcoin.it — https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17144
- github.com — https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3/doc/release-notes.md
- bitcoincore.org — https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/
- github.com — https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3.knots20180918/doc/release-n…
- github.com — https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension
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