VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-2292

high
Published 2013-03-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (electricity consumption) by mining a block to create a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction containing multiple OP_CHECKSIG script opcodes.

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://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.4
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.4.8
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.0
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.0.4
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.1
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.3.0
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.5.7
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.6.0.10
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.6.3
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.7.0
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.7.1
bitcoinbitcoin-qt0.7.2
bitcoinbitcoin_core
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.3.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.3.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.3.8
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.3.10
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.3.11
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.3.12
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.2
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.3
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.6
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.7
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.3
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.3.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.6
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.2
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.3
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.6
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.7
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.8
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.2
bitcoinbitcoind0.4.4
bitcoinbitcoind0.5.7
bitcoinbitcoind0.6.0.0
bitcoinbitcoind0.6.0.10
bitcoinbitcoind0.6.3
bitcoinbitcoind0.6.4
bitcoinbitcoind0.7.0
bitcoinbitcoind0.7.1
bitcoinbitcoind0.7.2

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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