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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-16762

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. Affected users can upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.

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CVE-2019-16762
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31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-16762

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Nov 2019, 23:15 UTC

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. Affected users can upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.

osv:CVE-2019-16762
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16762",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slpjs npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. Affected users can upgrade to any version >= 0.21.4.",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383649,
  "published_at": "2019-11-15T23:15:11.443+00:00"
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