CVE-2013-2292 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Bitcoin clients by submitting transactions with excessive script opcodes, leading to high resource consumption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-2292?
CVE-2013-2292 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, published on 12 Mar 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (electricity consumption) by mining a block to create a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction containing multiple OP_CHECKSIG script opcodes.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2292?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt, Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Bitcoind.
How do I fix CVE-2013-2292?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-2292 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-2292 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2292 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wrhm-6q62-jh9f.