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CVE-2012-2459

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.6, 0.5.x before 0.5.5, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (block-processing outage and incorrect block count) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.

Affected products

• Bitcoin Core: through 0.4.5; 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.8, 0.3.10, 0.3.11, 0.3.12 (+6)

References

• https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=81749
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415973
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
• https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=81749
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415973
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs

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