Vulnerability in Bitcoin Core
CVE-2013-2293
The CTransaction::FetchInputs method in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.8.0rc1 copies transactions from disk to memory without incrementally checking for spent prevouts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk I/O consumption) via a Bitcoin transaction with many inputs corresponding to many different parts of the stored block chain.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.025 (84.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bitcoin Core — versions 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.8
- Bitcoin Bitcoind — versions 0.4.4, 0.5.7, 0.6.0.0
- Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt — versions 0.4, 0.4.8, 0.5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-2293?
- CVE-2013-2293 is a vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under CWE-399. Published 2013-03-12.
- Is CVE-2013-2293 known to be exploited?
- 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.