What is CVE-2013-2272?

CVE-2013-2272 is a vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under Information Disclosure. Published 2013-03-12.

Is CVE-2013-2272 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Information disclosure in Bitcoin Core

CVE-2013-2272

The penny-flooding protection mechanism in the CTxMemPool::accept method in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.9rc1, 0.5.x before 0.5.8rc1, 0.6.0 before 0.6.0.11rc1, 0.6.1 through 0.6.5 before 0.6.5rc1, and 0.7.x before 0.7.3rc1 allows remote attackers to determine associations between wallet addresses and IP addresses via a series of large Bitcoin transactions with insufficient fees.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.019 (77.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Bitcoin Bitcoin_core — versions 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.8
Bitcoin Bitcoind — versions 0.5.7, 0.6.0.0, 0.6.0.10
Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt — versions 0.4, 0.5.0, 0.5.0.4
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-2272?: CVE-2013-2272 is a vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under Information Disclosure. Published 2013-03-12.
Is CVE-2013-2272 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.