VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8889

medium
Published 2016-10-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.2

Description

In Bitcoin Knots v0.11.0.ljr20150711 through v0.13.0.knots20160814 (fixed in v0.13.1.knots20161027), the debug console stores sensitive information including private keys and the wallet passphrase in its persistent command history.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.13.1.knots20161027/doc/release-notes.md

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1618462.0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.11.0
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.11.1
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.11.2
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.12.0
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.12.0.knots20160226
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.12.1.knots20160629
bitcoin_knots_projectbitcoin_knots0.13.0.knots20160814

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-310

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