CVE-2019-16762

medium

Description

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. Affected users can upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.

References

https://github.com/simpleledger/slpjs/security/advisories/GHSA-425c-ccf3-3jrr

https://github.com/simpleledger/slpjs/commit/ac8809b42e47790a6f0205991b36f2699ed10c84#diff-fe58606994c412ba56a65141a7aa4a62L701

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-15

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00279