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bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1 allow injection of arbitrary data into the debug log via an RPC call.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20586
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 05:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1 allow injection of arbitrary data into the debug log via an RPC call.
osv:CVE-2018-20586
Complete source record
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