Bitcoin Script Vulnerability: Specially Crafted Scripts Trigger SLP Consensus Hard-Fork

Bitcoin Script Vulnerability: Specially Crafted Scripts Trigger SLP Consensus Hard-Fork

CVE-2019-16761 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

A specially crafted Bitcoin script can cause a discrepancy between the specified SLP consensus rules and the validation result of the slp-validate@1.0.0 npm package. An attacker could create a specially crafted Bitcoin script in order to cause a hard-fork from the SLP consensus. All versions >1.0.0 have been patched.

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