Security advisory

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  "id": "c010ac88ee45e0ccdd2e124975df9f3c6ab1d9c19216a20a6ece6e4009b49ea2",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17144",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-17144",
    "summary": "Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-17144",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-17144",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-17144"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                  "fixed": "150612ecb5fda147a6fa77acd6fc4247708bd9b0"
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                {
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              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.14.0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "0.14.3"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.15.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.15.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "introduced": "0.16.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.16.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.16.2",
            "v0.16.2rc2",
            "v0.16.1",
            "v0.16.1rc2",
            "v0.16.1rc1",
            "v0.16.0",
            "v0.15.1",
            "v0.15.1rc1",
            "v0.15.0.1",
            "v0.15.0",
            "v0.14.2",
            "v0.14.2rc2",
            "v0.14.2rc1",
            "v0.14.1",
            "v0.14.1rc2",
            "v0.14.1rc1",
            "v0.14.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17144.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "46952c81399c86c9014b88ba3b42cebb24533c4d"
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                {
                  "fixed": "65e076f0e1d72844f1563ff8d1eaba66109f7fd8"
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              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:bitcoinknots:bitcoin_knots:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.14.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.16.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17144.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:50:33.190544461Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/",
        "https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17144",
        "https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension",
        "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3/doc/release-notes.md",
        "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3.knots20180918/doc/release-notes.md"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-17144",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 442288,
  "published_at": "2018-09-19T08:29:00.333+00:00"
}