THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-1910
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-1910

Bitcoin Qt vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Bitcoin-Qt 0.5.0.x before 0.5.0.5; 0.5.1.x, 0.5.2.x, and 0.5.3.x before 0.5.3.1; and 0.6.x before 0.6.0rc4 on Windows does not use MinGW multithread-safe exception handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted Bitcoin protocol messages.
Affected vendor
Bitcoin
Affected product
Bitcoin Qt
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2012-08-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-1910

  • Confirm whether Bitcoin Bitcoin Qt is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-1910.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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