CVE-2010-5140

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2010-5140 · Published 06/08/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-5140 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting bitcoin core (bitcoin), wxbitcoin (bitcoin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bitcoin core bitcoin	`= 0.3.10= 0.3.11= 0.3.4= 0.3.5= 0.3.8≤ 0.3.12`	No fix yet
wxbitcoin bitcoin	`= 0.3.10= 0.3.11= 0.3.4= 0.3.5= 0.3.8≤ 0.3.12`	No fix yet

Description

wxBitcoin and bitcoind before 0.3.13 do not properly handle bitcoins associated with Bitcoin transactions that have zero confirmations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid-transaction flood) by sending low-valued transactions without transaction fees.

References

bitcoin.org/smf/index.php
en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs · Vendor Advisory

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