In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 28, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 5, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 28, 2023
In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data unencrypted in memory. Upon a crash, it may dump a core file. If a user were to mishandle a core file, an attacker can reconstruct the user's wallet.dat file, including their private keys, via a grep "6231 0500" command.
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