Bitcoin Core before 24.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a flood of low-difficulty header chains (aka a "Chain Width Expansion" attack) because a node does not first verify that a presented chain has enough work before committing to store it.
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History
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Information
Published : 2024-11-18 04:15
Updated : 2024-11-18 17:35
NVD link : CVE-2019-25220
Mitre link : CVE-2019-25220
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-25220
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling