GHSA-HX58-X97G-CC9P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 03:18 – Updated: 2022-05-14 03:18
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** DISPUTED ** The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability.

Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-9230"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-338"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-05-24T16:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "** DISPUTED ** The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability.",
  "id": "GHSA-hx58-x97g-cc9p",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T03:18:09Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:18:09Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1604/1604.00575.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/013996.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014349.html"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014351.html"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014352.html"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.mit.edu/~jlrubin//public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf"
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