CVE-2023-50428
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 9, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 9, 2023
Description
In Bitcoin Core through 26.0 and Bitcoin Knots before 25.1.knots20231115, datacarrier size limits can be bypassed by obfuscating data as code (e.g., with OP_FALSE OP_IF), as exploited in the wild by Inscriptions in 2022 and 2023. NOTE: although this is a vulnerability from the perspective of the Bitcoin Knots project, some others consider it "not a bug."
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
- https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1732204937466032285
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408#issuecomment-1844981799
- https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/aed49ce8989334c364a219a6eb016a3897d4e3d7/doc/release-notes.md
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/65c05db660b2ca1d0076b0d8573a6760b3228068/src/kernel/mempool_options.h#L46-L53
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