CVE-2018-17144

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17144

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17144.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201809-2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201809-1

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`0.16.3-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.16.3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.16.3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.16.3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.16.3-1`

References

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