CVE-2019-15947

Publication date

2019-09-05 16:25:23

Family

mitre

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 users wallet.dat file, including their private keys, via a grep "6231 0500" command.