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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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