CVE-2022-40769 describes a critical vulnerability in profanity up to version 1.60, where the limited number of possible random number generator initializations (four billion) allows attackers to recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses. This flaw has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to high confidentiality impact (theft of cryptocurrency) without requiring user interaction. Notably, this vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild in June 2022, despite a lack of public exploit code, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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