CVE detail
CVE-2011-4447 — CVE-2011-4447
Published 2012-08-06 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor bitcoin · Product bitcoin_core · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0163
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
74.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
The "encrypt wallet" feature in wxBitcoin and bitcoind 0.4.x before 0.4.1, and 0.5.0rc, does not properly interact with the deletion functionality of BSDDB, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain unencrypted private keys from Bitcoin wallet files by bypassing the BSDDB interface and reading entries that are marked for deletion.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References