CVE-2023-50428 describes a vulnerability in Bitcoin Core through version 26.0 and Bitcoin Knots before 25.1.knots20231115, allowing datacarrier size limits to be bypassed by obfuscating data as code, a technique exploited by Inscriptions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) has a network attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to a loss of availability. While actively exploited in the wild by Inscriptions in 2022 and 2023, there are no public exploit modules like Metasploit or Nuclei, and it has garnered limited community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0.9, <= 26.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 0.9, < 25.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bitcoinknots:bitcoin_knots:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.