CVE-2012-2459

Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.6, 0.5.x before 0.5.5, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (block-processing outage and incorrect block count) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

3.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile

Published

2012-08-06

Updated

2024-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• fmerg/pymerkle79★ · 2025-10-13

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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