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CVE-2010-5140

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-5140 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting wxBitcoin and bitcoind versions prior to 0.3.13. This flaw allows remote attackers to flood the network with invalid transactions by sending low-valued transactions without fees, as the software improperly handles Bitcoin transactions with zero confirmations. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability has a low severity, requiring no authentication and having a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.3.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

en.bitcoin.it / wiki/CVEs
Vendor Advisory
bitcoin.org / smf/index.php