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CVE-2022-40769

7.5 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.5) in profanity project profanity. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-338
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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