CVE-2024-52916

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-770

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
bitcoinbitcoin_core>= 0.12.0, < 0.15.0

References

Timeline

Published
Nov 18, 2024
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2024-52916: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix