CVE-2017-9230
Published May 24, 2017
Last updated 3 months ago
Overview
- Description
- The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
- CNA Tags
- disputed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Configurations
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"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "E03CE589-44AF-46D4-971C-E780C84F91BE"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]