Security advisory

{
  "id": "b46046c37e2c283135a0b29b0564a9ecc8f92a2118323d3fe24a82541e922346",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-40769",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-40769",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-40769",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-40769",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-40769"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/johguse/profanity",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "90f2c2186fd390e55241b16a782830082da49b2d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.60"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.60"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.60",
            "v1.50",
            "v1.4",
            "v1.31",
            "v1.3",
            "v1.22",
            "v1.21",
            "v1.2",
            "v1.12",
            "v1.11",
            "v1.1",
            "v1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-40769.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:23.962069653Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40769.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40769",
        "https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61",
        "https://github.com/johguse/profanity",
        "https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40769.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-40769",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 490638,
  "published_at": "2022-09-18T16:01:08+00:00"
}