Incorrect Access Control in Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots allows local users to steal currency by exploiting a loophole in RPC port binding.

Incorrect Access Control in Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots allows local users to steal currency by exploiting a loophole in RPC port binding.

CVE-2018-20587 · LOW Severity

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

Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 through 0.17.1 and Bitcoin Knots 0.12.0 through 0.17.x before 0.17.1.knots20181229 have Incorrect Access Control. Local users can exploit this to steal currency by binding the RPC IPv4 localhost port, and forwarding requests to the IPv6 localhost port.

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