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CVE-2023-39910

HIGH

7.5

Description

The cryptocurrency wallet entropy seeding mechanism used in Libbitcoin Explorer 3.0.0 through 3.6.0 is weak, aka the Milk Sad issue. The use of an mt19937 Mersenne Twister PRNG restricts the internal entropy to 32 bits regardless of settings. This allows remote attackers to recover any wallet private keys generated from "bx seed" entropy output and steal funds. (Affected users need to move funds to a secure new cryptocurrency wallet.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that there was sufficient documentation advising against "bx seed" but others disagree. NOTE: this was exploited in the wild in June and July 2023.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published8/9/2023

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

libbitcoin:libbitcoin_explorer

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-338

References

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/blob/20eba4db9a8a3476949d6fd08a589abda7fde3e3/src/commands/seed.cpp#L44(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/blob/20eba4db9a8a3476949d6fd08a589abda7fde3e3/src/utility.cpp#L78(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/CVE-2023-39910(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/blob/a1b777fc51d9c04e0c7a1dec5cc746b82a6afe64/src/crypto/pseudo_random.cpp#L66C12-L78(cve@mitre.org)

https://milksad.info/disclosure.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054862(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/blob/20eba4db9a8a3476949d6fd08a589abda7fde3e3/src/commands/seed.cpp#L44(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/blob/20eba4db9a8a3476949d6fd08a589abda7fde3e3/src/utility.cpp#L78(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/CVE-2023-39910(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/blob/a1b777fc51d9c04e0c7a1dec5cc746b82a6afe64/src/crypto/pseudo_random.cpp#L66C12-L78(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://milksad.info/disclosure.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054862(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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