CVE-2013-10006

HIGH 7.5CVE-2013-10006 · Published 01/01/2023 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-10006 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting primecoin (ziftrshop).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.73%, higher than 54.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.8.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
primecoin ziftrshop	`= 0.8.4< 0.8.4`	`0.8.4`

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Ziftr primecoin up to 0.8.4rc1. Affected by this vulnerability is the function HTTPAuthorized of the file src/bitcoinrpc.cpp. The manipulation of the argument strUserPass/strRPCUserColonPass leads to observable timing discrepancy. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Upgrading to version 0.8.4rc2 is able to address this issue. The patch is named cdb3441b5cd2c1bae49fae671dc4a496f7c96322. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217171.

References

Ziftr/primecoin commit cdb3441 · Patch
Ziftr/primecoin release v0.8.4rc2 · Release Notes
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