CVE-2024-52916 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service by flooding the Bitcoin Core daemon with minimum difficulty headers, leading to an out-of-memory kill.
- 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-2024-52916?
CVE-2024-52916 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, published on 18 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Bitcoin Core before 0.15.0 allows a denial of service (OOM kill of a daemon process) via a flood of minimum difficulty headers.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52916?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Bitcoin Bitcoin Core.
How do I fix CVE-2024-52916?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52916 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-2024-52916 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52916 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qcxm-3xrq-pj5f.