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.
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Bitcoin
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Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin bitcoin Core |
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cvssV3_1
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Description | 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. | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2024-11-18T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-11-18T16:28:52.209Z
Reserved: 2024-11-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-25220
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-11-18T16:28:40.669Z
NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-11-18T04:15:04.107
Modified: 2024-11-18T17:35:01.780
Link: CVE-2019-25220
Redhat
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