What is CVE-2024-52916?

CVE-2024-52916 is a high-severity vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-11-18.

How severe is CVE-2024-52916?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Bitcoin Core

CVE-2024-52916

Bitcoin Core before 0.15.0 allows a denial of service (OOM kill of a daemon process) via a flood of minimum difficulty headers.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 43rd percentile — 42.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Bitcoin Core

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures (Third Party Advisory)
bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose-header-spam/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52916?: CVE-2024-52916 is a high-severity vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-11-18.
How severe is CVE-2024-52916?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.