CVE-2019-25220
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-18 00:00
Modified
2024-11-18 16:28
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/09/18/disclose-headers-oom
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-October/017354.html
Impacted products
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