Overview
- Description
- profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- 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
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-338
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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