CVE-2024-52916

high

Description

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

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-45966

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose-header-spam/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-18

Updated: 2025-04-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00531