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    CVE-2022-40769

    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.

    Published:Sep 18, 2022
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Sep 18, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.01375
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Profanity Project
    Product
    Profanity

    Exploits

    https://github.com/ethicbrudhack/CVE-2022-40769---Profanityhttps://github.com/PLSRcoin/CVE-2022-40769

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High