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GHSA-HX58-X97G-CC9P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 03:18 – Updated: 2022-05-14 03:18

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** DISPUTED ** The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2017-9230 (GCVE-0-2017-9230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-24 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:02 Disputed

Summary

The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-23 15:55 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-338 - Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2339 records in the last 180 days details

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1604/1604.00575.pdf	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitco…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitco…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98657	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitco…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitco…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.mit.edu/~jlrubin//public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
bitcoin	bitcoin	Affected: - cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin:-:::::::*

Date Public

2017-05-24 00:00

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