CVE-2022-40769

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-40769 · Published 18/09/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-40769 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting profanity (profanity project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
profanity profanity_project	`≤ 1.60`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c · Third Party Advisory
johguse/profanity · Third Party Advisory
johguse/profanity · Issue Tracking

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