Vulnerability: Unencrypted Private Key Extraction in wxBitcoin and bitcoind

CVE-2011-4447 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The "encrypt wallet" feature in wxBitcoin and bitcoind 0.4.x before 0.4.1, and 0.5.0rc, does not properly interact with the deletion functionality of BSDDB, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain unencrypted private keys from Bitcoin wallet files by bypassing the BSDDB interface and reading entries that are marked for deletion.

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