CVE-2022-40769

7.5

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses...

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction

Vendor: johguse
Product: profanity
Published: Sep 18, 2022
EPSS: —

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.

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.5 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-09-18 16:01:08 UTC · Source

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CVE	Sep 18, 2022

Vulnerability detail