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CVE-2012-2459

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2459 describes an unspecified vulnerability affecting bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.4.6, 0.5.5, 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, leading to block-processing outages and incorrect block counts on the Bitcoin network. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, primarily impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.4.5CPE 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
3.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0306 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

bitcointalk.org
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
en.bitcoin.it / wiki/CVEs
Vendor Advisory