Security Advisory

CVE-2019-15947

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-09-05 16:25:23
Last updated 2024-08-05 01:03:32
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data unencrypted in memory. Upon a crash, it may dump a core file. If a user were to mishandle a core file, an attacker can reconstruct the user's wallet.dat file, including their private keys, via a grep "6231 0500" command.