Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVE | Announced | Affects | Severity | Attack is... | Flaw | Net |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-BIP protocol changes | n/a | All Bitcoin clients | Netsplit[1] | Implicit[2] | Various hardforks and softforks | 100% |
CVE-2010-5137 | 2010-07-28 | wxBitcoin and bitcoind | DoS[3] | Easy | OP_LSHIFT crash | 100% |
CVE-2010-5141 | 2010-07-28 | wxBitcoin and bitcoind | Theft[4] | Easy | OP_RETURN could be used to spend any output. | 100% |
CVE-2010-5138 | 2010-07-29 | wxBitcoin and bitcoind | DoS[3] | Easy | Unlimited SigOp DoS | 100% |
CVE-2010-5139 | 2010-08-15 | wxBitcoin and bitcoind | Inflation[5] | Easy | Combined output overflow | 100% |
CVE-2010-5140 | 2010-09-29 | wxBitcoin and bitcoind | DoS[3] | Easy | Never confirming transactions | 100% |
CVE-2011-4447 | 2011-11-11 | wxBitcoin and bitcoind | Exposure[6] | Hard | Wallet non-encryption | 100% |
CVE-2012-1909 | 2012-03-07 | Bitcoin protocol and all clients | Netsplit[1] | Very hard | Transaction overwriting | 100% |
CVE-2012-1910 | 2012-03-17 | bitcoind & Bitcoin-Qt for Windows | Unknown[7] | Hard | Non-thread safe MingW exceptions | 100% |
BIP 0016 | 2012-04-01 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softfork: P2SH | 100% |
CVE-2012-2459 | 2012-05-14 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | Netsplit[1] | Easy | Block hash collision (via merkle root) | 100% |
CVE-2012-3789 | 2012-06-20 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | Easy | (Lack of) orphan txn resource limits | 100% |
CVE-2012-4682 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | 100% | |||
CVE-2012-4683 | 2012-08-23 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | Easy | Targeted DoS by CPU exhaustion using alerts | 100% |
CVE-2012-4684 | 2012-08-24 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | Easy | Network-wide DoS using malleable signatures in alerts | 100% |
CVE-2013-2272 | 2013-01-11 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | Exposure[6] | Easy | Remote discovery of node's wallet addresses | 99.99% |
CVE-2013-2273 | 2013-01-30 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | Exposure[6] | Easy | Predictable change output | 99.99% |
CVE-2013-2292 | 2013-01-30 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | Hard | A transaction that takes at least 3 minutes to verify | 0% |
CVE-2013-2293 | 2013-02-14 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | Easy | Continuous hard disk seek | 99.99% |
CVE-2013-3219 | 2013-03-11 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Unenforced block protocol rule | 100% |
CVE-2013-3220 | 2013-03-11 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | Netsplit[1] | Hard | Inconsistent BDB lock limit interactions | 99.99% |
BIP 0034 | 2013-03-25 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softfork: Height in coinbase | 100% |
BIP 0050 | 2013-05-15 | All Bitcoin clients | Netsplit[1] | Implicit[2] | Hard fork to remove txid limit protocol rule | 99.99% |
CVE-2013-4627 | 2013-06-?? | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | DoS[3] | Easy | Memory exhaustion with excess tx message data | 99.9% |
CVE-2013-4165 | 2013-07-20 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt | Theft[10] | Local | Timing leak in RPC authentication | 99.9% |
CVE-2013-5700 | 2013-09-04 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x | DoS[3] | Easy | Remote p2p crash via bloom filters | 99.9% |
CVE-2014-0160 | 2014-04-07 | Anything using OpenSSL for TLS | Unknown[7] | Easy | Remote memory leak via payment protocol | Unknown |
CVE-2015-3641 | 2014-07-07 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 | DoS[3] | Easy | (Yet) Unspecified DoS | 99.9% |
BIP 66 | 2015-02-13 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softfork: Strict DER signatures | 99% |
BIP 65 | 2015-11-12 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softfork: OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY | 99% |
BIPs 68, 112 & 113 | 2016-04-11 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softforks: Rel locktime, CSV & MTP locktime | 99% |
BIPs 141, 143 & 147 | 2016-10-27 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softfork: Segwit | 99% |
CVE-2016-8889 | 2016-10-27 | Bitcoin Knots GUI 0.11.0 - 0.13.0 | Exposure | Hard | Debug console history storing sensitive info | 100% |
CVE-2017-9230 | ? | Bitcoin | ? | ? | ASICBoost | 0% |
BIP 148 | 2017-03-12 | All Bitcoin clients | Fake Conf[8] | Miners[9] | Softfork: Segwit UASF | ? |
CVE-2017-12842 | 2018-06-09 | No commitment to block merkle tree depth | ||||
CVE-2016-10724 | 2018-07-02 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.13.0 | DoS[3] | Keyholders[11] | Alert memory exhaustion | 99% |
CVE-2016-10725 | 2018-07-02 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.13.0 | DoS[3] | Keyholders[11] | Final alert cancellation | 99% |
CVE-2018-17144 | 2018-09-17 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.16.3 | Inflation[5] | Miners[9] | Missing check for duplicate inputs | 62% |
CVE-2018-20587 | 2019-02-08 | Bitcoin Knots prior to 0.17.1, and all current Bitcoin Core releases | Theft[10] | Local | No alert for RPC service binding failure | 1% |
CVE-2017-18350 | 2019-06-22 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 | Unknown | Varies[12] | Buffer overflow from SOCKS proxy | 89% |
CVE-2018-20586 | 2019-06-22 | bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1 | Deception | RPC access | Debug log injection via unauthenticated RPC | 50% |
CVE-2019-12998 | 2019-08-30 | c-lightning prior to 0.7.1 | Theft | Easy | Missing check of channel funding UTXO | |
CVE-2019-12999 | 2019-08-30 | lnd prior to 0.7 | Theft | Easy | Missing check of channel funding UTXO amount | |
CVE-2019-13000 | 2019-08-30 | eclair prior to 0.3 | Theft | Easy | Missing check of channel funding UTXO | |
TBD[1] | 2020-06-03 | Trezor and others | Theft | Social[13] | Double-signing can enable unintended fees | |
CVE-2020-14198 | Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 | DoS[3] | Easy | Remote DoS | 90% |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Attacker can create multiple views of the network, enabling double-spending with over 1 confirmation
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 This is a protocol "hard-fork" that old clients will reject as invalid and must therefore not be used.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 Attacker can disable some functionality, for example by crashing clients
- ↑ Attacker can take coins outside known network rules
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Attacker can create coins outside known network rules
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Attacker can access user data outside known acceptable methods
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Extent of possible abuse is unknown
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Attacker can double-spend with 1 confirmation
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 Attacking requires mining block(s)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Local attacker could potentially determine the RPC passphrase via a timing sidechannel.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Attacking requires signing with the publicly-disclosed alert key
- ↑ Depends on software configuration
- ↑ User must be tricked into cooperating (social engineering)
CVE-2010-5137
Date: 2010-07-28 Summary: OP_LSHIFT crash Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind wxBitcoin |
* - 0.3.4 | 0.3.5 |
On July 28 2010, two bugs were discovered and demonstrated on the test network. One caused bitcoin to crash on some machines when processing a transaction containing an OP_LSHIFT. This was never exploited on the main network, and was fixed by Bitcoin version 0.3.5.
After these bugs were discovered, many currently-unused script words were disabled for safety.
References
CVE-2010-5141
Date: 2010-07-28 Summary: ? Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind wxBitcoin |
* - 0.3.4 | 0.3.5 |
On July 28 2010, two bugs were discovered and demonstrated on the test network. One exploited a bug in the transaction handling code and allowed an attacker to spend coins that they did not own. This was never exploited on the main network, and was fixed by Bitcoin version 0.3.5.
After these bugs were discovered, many currently-unused script words were disabled for safety.
References
CVE-2010-5138
Date: 2010-07-29 Summary: Unlimited SigOp DoS Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind wxBitcoin |
* - 0.3.? | 0.3.? |
On July 29 2010, it was discovered that block 71036 contained several transactions with a ton of OP_CHECKSIG commands. There should only ever be one such command. This caused every node to do extra unnecessary work, and it could have been used as a denial-of-service attack. A new version of Bitcoin was quickly released. The new version did not cause a fork on the main network, though it did cause one on the test network (where someone had played around with the attack more).
References
CVE-2010-5139
- Main article: CVE-2010-5139
Date: 2010-08-15 Summary: Combined output overflow Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind wxBitcoin |
* - 0.3.10 | 0.3.11 |
On August 15 2010, it was discovered that block 74638 contained a transaction that created over 184 billion bitcoins for two different addresses. This was possible because the code used for checking transactions before including them in a block didn't account for the case of outputs so large that they overflowed when summed. A new version was published within a few hours of the discovery. The block chain had to be forked. Although many unpatched nodes continued to build on the "bad" block chain, the "good" block chain overtook it at a block height of 74691. The bad transaction no longer exists for people using the longest chain.
The block and transaction:
CBlock(hash=0000000000790ab3, ver=1, hashPrevBlock=0000000000606865, hashMerkleRoot=618eba, nTime=1281891957, nBits=1c00800e, nNonce=28192719, vtx=2) CTransaction(hash=012cd8, ver=1, vin.size=1, vout.size=1, nLockTime=0) CTxIn(COutPoint(000000, -1), coinbase 040e80001c028f00) CTxOut(nValue=50.51000000, scriptPubKey=0x4F4BA55D1580F8C3A8A2C7) CTransaction(hash=1d5e51, ver=1, vin.size=1, vout.size=2, nLockTime=0) CTxIn(COutPoint(237fe8, 0), scriptSig=0xA87C02384E1F184B79C6AC) CTxOut(nValue=92233720368.54275808, scriptPubKey=OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0xB7A7) CTxOut(nValue=92233720368.54275808, scriptPubKey=OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0x1512) vMerkleTree: 012cd8 1d5e51 618eba Block hash: 0000000000790ab3f22ec756ad43b6ab569abf0bddeb97c67a6f7b1470a7ec1c Transaction hash: 1d5e512a9723cbef373b970eb52f1e9598ad67e7408077a82fdac194b65333c9
References
CVE-2010-5140
Date: 2010-09-29 Summary: Never confirming transactions Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind wxBitcoin |
* - 0.3.12 | 0.3.13 |
Around September 29, 2010, people started reporting that their sent transactions would not confirm. This happened because people modified Bitcoin to send sub-0.01 transactions without any fees. A 0.01 fee was at that time required by the network for such transactions (essentially prohibiting them), so the transactions remained at 0 confirmations forever. This became a more serious issue because Bitcoin would send transactions using bitcoins gotten from transactions with 0 confirmations, and these resulting transactions would also never confirm. Because Bitcoin tends to prefer sending smaller coins, these invalid transactions quickly multiplied, contaminating the wallets of everyone who received them.
Bitcoin was changed to only select coins with at least 1 confirmation. The remaining sub-0.01 transactions were cleared by generators who modified their version of Bitcoin to not require the micropayment fee. It took a while for everything to get cleared, though, because many of the intermediate transactions had been forgotten by the network by this point and had to be rebroadcast by the original senders.
References
CVE-2011-4447
Date: 2011-11-11 Summary: Wallet non-encryption Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind wxBitcoin |
0.4.0 - 0.4.1rc6 | 0.4.1 0.5.0 |
References
CVE-2012-1909
Date: 2012-03-07 Summary: Transaction overwriting Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin protocol | Before March 15th, 2012 | BIP 30 |
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.4rc2 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.0.4rc2 0.5.1rc1 - 0.5.3rc2 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0rc2 |
0.4.4 0.5.0.4 0.5.3 0.6.0rc3 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
CVE-2012-1910
Date: 2012-03-17 Summary: Non-thread safe MingW exceptions Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
bitcoind for Windows Bitcoin-Qt for Windows |
0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.0.4 0.5.1rc1 - 0.5.3.0 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0rc3 |
0.5.0.5 0.5.3.1 0.5.4 0.6.0rc4 |
References
BIP-0016
Date: 2012-04-01 Summary: Mandatory P2SH protocol update Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.4 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.0.5 0.5.1rc1 - 0.5.3 0.6.0rc1 |
0.4.5 0.5.0.6 0.5.4rc1 0.6.0rc2 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
CVE-2012-2459
Date: 2012-05-14 Summary: Block hash collision (via merkle tree) Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.6rc1 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.5rc1 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.7rc1 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.1rc1 |
0.4.6 0.5.5 0.6.0.7 0.6.1rc2 |
Block hash collisions can easily be made by duplicating transactions in the merkle tree. Such a collision is invalid, but if recorded (as Bitcoin-Qt and bitcoind prior to 0.6.1 did) would prevent acceptance of the legitimate block with the same hash. This could be used to fork the blockchain, including deep double-spend attacks.
References
CVE-2012-3789
- Main article: CVE-2012-3789
Date: 2012-06-20 Summary: (Lack of) orphan txn resource limits Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.7rc2 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.6rc2 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.8rc2 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.2.2 |
0.4.7rc3 0.5.6rc3 0.6.0.9rc1 0.6.3rc1 |
References
CVE-2012-4682
Date: Summary: Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.7rc2 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.6rc2 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.8rc2 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.2.2 |
0.4.7rc3 0.5.6rc3 0.6.0.9rc1 0.6.3rc1 |
References
CVE-2012-4683
- Main article: CVE-2012-4683
Date: 2012-08-23 Summary: Targeted DoS by CPU exhaustion using alerts Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.7rc2 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.6rc2 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.8rc2 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.2.2 |
0.7.0 |
References
CVE-2012-4684
- Main article: CVE-2012-4684
Date: 2012-08-24 Summary: Network-wide DoS using malleable signatures in alerts Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.7rc2 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.6rc2 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.8rc2 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.2.2 - 0.6.3rc1 |
0.7.0 |
References
CVE-2013-2272
Date: 2013-01-11 Summary: Remote discovery of node's wallet addresses Fix Deployment: 99.99%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.8rc4 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.7 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.10rc4 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.4rc4 0.7.0rc1 - 0.7.2 |
0.4.9rc1 0.5.8rc1 0.6.0.11rc1 0.6.5rc1 0.7.3rc1 |
References
CVE-2013-2273
Date: 2013-01-30 Summary: Predictable change output Fix Deployment: 99.99%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.8rc4 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.7 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.10rc4 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.4rc4 0.7.0rc1 - 0.7.2 |
0.4.9rc1 0.5.8rc1 0.6.0.11rc1 0.6.5rc1 0.7.3rc1 |
References
CVE-2013-2292
Date: 2013-01-30 Summary: A transaction that takes at least 3 minutes to verify Fix Deployment: 0%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
All versions | No fix yet |
References
CVE-2013-2293
- Main article: CVE-2013-2293
Date: 2013-02-14 Summary: Continuous hard disk seek Fix Deployment: 99.99%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.7.3rc1 | No fix yet (0.8.0 unaffected) |
References
CVE-2013-3219
Date: 2013-03-11 Summary: Unenforced block protocol rule Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
0.8.0rc1 - 0.8.0 | 0.8.1 |
References
CVE-2013-3220
Date: 2013-03-11 Summary: Inconsistent BDB lock limit interactions Fix Deployment: 99.99%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.9rc1 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.8rc1 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.5rc1 0.7.0rc1 - 0.7.3rc1 |
0.4.9rc2 0.5.8rc2 0.6.5rc2 0.7.3rc2 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
BIP-0034
Date: 2013-03-25 Summary: Mandatory block protocol update Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.7 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.7 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.0.9 0.6.1rc1 - 0.6.3 |
0.4.8rc1 0.5.7rc1 0.6.0.10rc1 0.6.4rc1 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
BIP-0050
Date: 2013-05-15 Summary: Hard fork to remove txid limit protocol rule Deployment: 99.99%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.9rc1 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.8rc1 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.5rc1 0.7.0rc1 - 0.7.3rc1 |
0.4.9rc2 0.5.8rc2 0.6.5rc2 0.7.3rc2 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
CVE-2013-4627
Date: 2013-06-?? Summary: Memory exhaustion with excess tx message data Fix Deployment: 99.9%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.9rc3 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.8rc3 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.5rc3 0.7.0rc1 - 0.7.3rc3 0.8.0rc1 - 0.8.3 |
0.4.9rc4 0.5.8rc4 0.6.5rc4 0.7.3rc4 0.8.4 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
CVE-2013-4165
Date: 2013-07-20 Summary: Timing leak in RPC authentication Fix Deployment: 99.9%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
* - 0.4.9rc3 0.5.0rc1 - 0.5.8rc3 0.6.0rc1 - 0.6.5rc3 0.7.0rc1 - 0.7.3rc3 0.8.0rc1 - 0.8.3 |
0.4.9rc4 0.5.8rc4 0.6.5rc4 0.7.3rc4 0.8.4rc1 |
wxBitcoin | ALL | NONE |
References
CVE-2013-5700
Date: 2013-09-04 Summary: Remote p2p crash via bloom filters Fix Deployment: 99.9%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
0.8.0rc1 - 0.8.3 | 0.8.4rc1 |
References
CVE-2016-8889
Date: 2016-10-27 Summary: Debug console history storing sensitive info Fix Deployment: 100%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin Knots GUI | 0.11.0 - 0.13.0 | 0.13.1 |
References
CVE-2017-12842
Date: 2018-06-09 Summary: No commitment to block merkle tree depth
References
CVE-2017-18350
Date: 2019-06-22 Summary: Buffer overflow from SOCKS proxy
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
0.7.0rc1 - 0.15.0 | 0.15.1rc1 |
References
CVE-2018-17144
Date: 2018-09-17 Summary: Missing check for duplicate inputs Fix Deployment: 31%
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
0.14.0rc1 - 0.14.2 0.15.0rc1 - 0.15.1 0.16.0rc1 - 0.16.2 |
0.14.3 0.15.2 0.16.3 |
References
- Full disclosure by Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 release notes
- Bitcoin Knots 0.16.3.knots20180918 release notes
- US-CERT/NIST
- Gentoo bug
CVE-2018-20586
Date: 2019-06-22 Summary: Debug log injection via unauthenticated RPC
Affected | Fix | |
---|---|---|
Bitcoin-Qt bitcoind |
0.12.0rc1 - 0.17.0 | 0.17.1rc1 |
References
Definitions
A critical vulnerability is one that will have disastrous consequences if it is exploited. A serious vulnerability is one that will have serious consequences if it is exploited[1].
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