profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.
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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:28:42.680Z

Reserved: 2022-09-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-40769

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-18T17:15:09.667

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:22:01.510

Link: CVE-2022-40769

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