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CVE-2022-40769

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2022-09-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Profanity Project Profanity

Weakness Type

CWE-338

References