# CVE-2018-17144: Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allo

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2018-09-19 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17144
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3/doc/release-notes.md
- https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/
- https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.3.knots20180918/doc/release-notes.md
- https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension
- https://github.com/hikame/CVE-2018-17144_POC
- https://github.com/iioch/ban-exploitable-bitcoin-nodes

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