Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16762
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-11-15T23:15:11.443+00:00"
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