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CVE-2022-40769

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-338

Description

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.

Affected products

• Profanity Project Profanity: through 1.60

References

• https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c
• https://github.com/johguse/profanity
• https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61
• https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c
• https://github.com/johguse/profanity
• https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61

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