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CVE-2012-1910

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1910 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in specific versions of Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoin Core on Windows, stemming from improper multithread-safe exception handling. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application or potentially execute arbitrary code through specially crafted Bitcoin protocol messages. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, leading to potential confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.5.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.5.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0451 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

gavintech.blogspot.com / 2012/03/full-disclosure-bitcoin-qt-on-windows.html
bitcointalk.org / index.php
en.bitcoin.it / wiki/CVEs
github.com / bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/8864019f6d88b13d3442843d9e6ebeb8dd938831
ExploitPatch