CVE-2018-1000851

CRITICAL

Copay Bitcoin Wallet <5.1.0 - Private Key Compromise

Title source: llm

Description

Copay Bitcoin Wallet version 5.01 to 5.1.0 included. contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in wallet private key storage that can result in Users' private key can be compromised. . This attack appear to be exploitable via Affected version run the malicious code at startup . This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.2.0 and later .

References (4)

[Third Party Advisory] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacker-backdoors-widely-used-open-source-software-to-steal-bitcoin/

[Third Party Advisory] https://blog.bitpay.com/npm-package-vulnerability-copay/

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/bitpay/copay/issues/9346

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 55.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-522

Status published

Affected Products (1)

copay/copay_bitcoin_wallet < 5.1.0

Timeline

Published Dec 20, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026