electrum — security advisory
The Python console in Electrum through 2.9.4 and 3.x through 3.0.5 supports arbitrary Python code without considering (1) social-engineering attacks in which a user pastes code that they do not understand and (2) code pasted by a physically proximate attacker at an unattended workstation, which makes it easier for attackers to steal Bitcoin via hook code that runs at a later time when the wallet password has been entered, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-1000022.
- Products
- electrum
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.2.3-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-6353
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Python console in Electrum through 2.9.4 and 3.x through 3.0.5 supports arbitrary Python code without considering (1) social-engineering attacks in which a user pastes code that they do not understand and (2) code pasted by a physically proximate attacker at an unattended workstation, which makes it easier for attackers to steal Bitcoin via hook code that runs at a later time when the wallet password has been entered, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-1000022.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6353
electrum
Fixed versions: 3.2.3-1
electrum
Fixed versions: 3.2.3-1
electrum
Fixed versions: 3.2.3-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 420522,
"published_at": "2018-01-27T15:29:00.27+00:00"
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