What is CVE-2024-52913?

CVE-2024-52913 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-11-18.

How severe is CVE-2024-52913?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-52913 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Bitcoin Core

CVE-2024-52913

In Bitcoin Core before 0.21.0, an attacker could prevent a node from seeing a specific unconfirmed transaction, because transaction re-requests are mishandled.

Published 2024-11-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (29.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 29.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Bitcoin Core

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures (Third Party Advisory)
bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose_already_asked_for/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52913?: CVE-2024-52913 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-11-18.
How severe is CVE-2024-52913?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-52913 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.