CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCVE-2023-50428
Medium (5.3). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In Bitcoin Core through 26.0 and Bitcoin Knots before 25.1.knots20231115, datacarrier size limits can be bypassed by obfuscating data as code (e.g., with OP_FALSE OP_IF), as exploited in the wild by Inscriptions in 2022 and 2023. NOTE: although this is a vulnerability from the perspective of the Bitcoin Knots project, some others consider it "not a bug."
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- bitcoin:bitcoin_core
- bitcoinknots:bitcoin_knots
References
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/65c05db660b2ca1d0076b0d8573a6760b3228068/src/kernel/mempool_options.h#L46-L53
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408#issuecomment-1844981799
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags
- https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/aed49ce8989334c364a219a6eb016a3897d4e3d7/doc/release-notes.md