Security advisory

{
  "id": "89a6a583f96bec6a98355e6b9e3717a43c4a70780efbdc8dfcb2e95b667676fe",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10724",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-10724",
    "summary": "Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service (memory exhaustion) triggered by the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016) if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects other uses of the codebase, such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-10724",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-10724",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-10724"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "a402396dce64c42ea73535b7dde4a9164d430438"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.13.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.13.0rc3",
            "v0.13.0rc2",
            "v0.13.0rc1",
            "v0.9.0rc2",
            "noversion",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.9.0rc1",
            "v0.8.2",
            "v0.7.1rc1",
            "v0.7.1",
            "v0.8.2rc2",
            "v0.8.2rc3",
            "v0.8.2rc1",
            "v0.8.0rc1",
            "v0.7.0rc3",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.7.0rc2",
            "v0.7.0rc1",
            "v0.6.0rc6",
            "v0.6.0",
            "v0.6.1",
            "v0.5.0rc7",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.6.1rc2",
            "v0.6.1rc1",
            "v0.6.0rc5",
            "v0.6.0rc4",
            "v0.6.0rc3",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.6.0rc2",
            "v0.6.0rc1",
            "v0.5.1rc2",
            "v0.5.1",
            "v0.5.1rc1",
            "v0.5.0rc6",
            "v0.5.0rc5",
            "v0.5.0rc4",
            "v0.5.0rc2",
            "v0.5.0rc1",
            "v0.4.00rc2",
            "v0.4.00rc1",
            "v0.3.24",
            "v0.3.24rc3",
            "v0.3.24rc2",
            "v0.3.24rc1",
            "v0.3.23rc1",
            "v0.3.23",
            "v0.3.22",
            "v0.3.22rc3",
            "v0.3.22rc4",
            "v0.3.22rc2",
            "v0.3.22rc1",
            "v0.3.21",
            "v0.3.21rc",
            "v0.3.20.2_closest",
            "v0.3.20.01_closest",
            "v0.3.20",
            "v0.3.11_notexact",
            "v0.3.8",
            "v0.3.7",
            "v0.3.6",
            "v0.3.3",
            "v0.3.2",
            "v0.3.1",
            "v0.3.1rc1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10724.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.383134123Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure",
        "https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures",
        "https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html",
        "https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "bitcoin:bitcoin-qt",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "0.13.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "bitcoin:bitcoind",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "0.13.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-10724",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435607,
  "published_at": "2018-07-05T22:29:00.233+00:00"
}