Vulnerability CVE-2016-10725
Published: 2018-07-05   Modified: 2018-07-06

Description:
In Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0, a non-final alert is able to block the special "final alert" (which is supposed to override all other alerts) because operations occur in the wrong order. This behavior occurs in the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016). This affects other uses of the codebase, such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins.

Type:

CWE-310

 (Cryptographic Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Bitcoin -> Bitcoin-qt 
Bitcoin -> Bitcoind 

 References:
https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html
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