CVE-2021-3401
Published: 04 February 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-3401 is a critical-severity Argument Injection (CWE-88) vulnerability in Bitcoin Bitcoin. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 18.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-26729
Vulnerability details
Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated by an x-scheme-handler/bitcoin handler for a .desktop file or a web browser. NOTE: the…
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discoverer states "I believe that this vulnerability cannot actually be exploited."
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.