CVE-2024-52916

HIGH

Bitcoin Core < 0.15.0 - Denial of Service via Header Flood

Title source: llm

Bitcoin Core before 0.15.0 allows a denial of service (OOM kill of a daemon process) via a flood of minimum difficulty headers.

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory

Third Party Advisory

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0051

EPSS Percentile 39.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Products (1)

bitcoin/bitcoin_core < 0.15.0

Published Nov 18, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026