VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-52916

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-11-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Primary references