National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4447
Original release date:08/06/2012
Last revised:08/07/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The "encrypt wallet" feature in wxBitcoin and bitcoind 0.4.x before 0.4.1, and 0.5.0rc, does not properly interact with the deletion functionality of BSDDB, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain unencrypted private keys from Bitcoin wallet files by bypassing the BSDDB interface and reading entries that are marked for deletion.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51604.0
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51474.0
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bitcoin.org/releases/2011/11/21/v0.5.0.html