CVE-2022-40769
profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations.
high entropy
Entropy / wallet impact
profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations.
Description
profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.
CWE
Primary sources
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40769 (nvd)
- https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8c (nvd)
- https://github.com/johguse/profanity (nvd)
- https://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61 (nvd)
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40769 (mitre)