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CVE-2012-4684
N/ADescription
The alert functionality in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.7.0 supports different character representations of the same signature data, but relies on a hash of this signature, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a valid modified signature for a circulating alert.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published3/12/2013
Last Modified4/29/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
bitcoin:bitcoin-qtbitcoin:bitcoin_corebitcoin:bitcoindbitcoin:wxbitcoin
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-399
References
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148109.0(cve@mitre.org)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.0(cve@mitre.org)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-4684(cve@mitre.org)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs(cve@mitre.org)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148109.0(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.0(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-4684(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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