CVE-2022-40769
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-18 16:01
Modified
2024-08-03 12:28
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8cThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/johguse/profanityThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8cThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/johguse/profanityThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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