CVE-2019-15947

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CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
CVSS v2
5
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT

Description

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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