CVE-2019-15947 affects Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, where bitcoin-qt stores unencrypted wallet.dat data in memory. Upon a crash, this data can be dumped into a core file, allowing an attacker to reconstruct the wallet.dat, including private keys, if the core file is mishandled. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a high impact on confidentiality with a network attack vector and low complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion, with only one Reddit mention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.