CVE-2012-2459
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.6, 0.5.x before 0.5.5, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (block-processing outage and incorrect block count) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | {"endIncluding":"0.4.5"} | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.3.4 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.3.5 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.3.8 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.3.10 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.3.11 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.3.12 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.4.0 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.4.1 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.4.4 | |
| bitcoin | bitcoin_core | 0.5.0 | |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.