CVE-2012-1910

high
Published 2012-08-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Bitcoin-Qt 0.5.0.x before 0.5.0.5; 0.5.1.x, 0.5.2.x, and 0.5.3.x before 0.5.3.1; and 0.6.x before 0.6.0rc4 on Windows does not use MinGW multithread-safe exception handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted Bitcoin protocol messages.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/8864019f6d88b13d3442843d9e6ebeb8dd938831

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.0
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.0.4
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.1
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.3.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.2
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.