Detections
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CVE-2023-39910
high
Description
The cryptocurrency wallet entropy seeding mechanism used in Libbitcoin Explorer 3.0.0 through 3.6.0 is weak, aka the Milk Sad issue. The use of an mt19937 Mersenne Twister PRNG restricts the internal entropy to 32 bits regardless of settings. This allows remote attackers to recover any wallet private keys generated from "bx seed" entropy output and steal funds. (Affected users need to move funds to a secure new cryptocurrency wallet.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that there was sufficient documentation advising against "bx seed" but others disagree. NOTE: this was exploited in the wild in June and July 2023.
References
https://github.com/Xaxis/bitcoin-security
https://github.com/ethicbrudhack/CVE-2022-40769---Profanity
https://github.com/lso136/WCSS_CVE
https://github.com/demining/RAMnesia-Attack
https://github.com/demining/Phantom-Signature-Attack
https://github.com/Hitplus/hitplus.github.io
https://github.com/Hitplus/RingSide-Replay-Attack
https://github.com/zoeir/BTCDetect-Scientific-Methodology
https://github.com/demining/Scalar-Venom-Attack
https://github.com/demining/Pixnapping-Attack-on-Android
https://github.com/demining/Phoenix-Rowhammer-Attack-CVE-2025-6202
https://github.com/z1ph1us/MilkSad-Mnemonic-Generator
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/CVE-2023-39910