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CVE-2012-4684

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4684 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.7.0. The flaw allows remote attackers to exploit the alert functionality by submitting modified, yet valid, signatures for circulating alerts, leading to excessive resource consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can cause a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0286 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bitcointalk.org / index.php
bitcointalk.org / index.php
en.bitcoin.it / wiki/CVE-2012-4684
en.bitcoin.it / wiki/CVEs