BIP-143 Vulnerability: Exploiting Segwit Transaction Signing in Bitcoin Protocol

BIP-143 Vulnerability: Exploiting Segwit Transaction Signing in Bitcoin Protocol

CVE-2020-14199 · MEDIUM Severity

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

BIP-143 in the Bitcoin protocol specification mishandles the signing of a Segwit transaction, which allows attackers to trick a user into making two signatures in certain cases, potentially leading to a huge transaction fee. NOTE: this affects all hardware wallets. It was fixed in 1.9.1 for the Trezor One and 2.3.1 for the Trezor Model T.

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