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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Advisories
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EUVD-2022-44035 | 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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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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Status : Modified
Published: 2022-09-18T17:15:09.667
Modified: 2024-11-21T07:22:01.510
Link: CVE-2022-40769
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD