CVE-2012-1910: Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Bitcoin-Qt 0.5.0.x before 0.5.0.5; 0.5.1.x, 0.5.2.x, and 0.5.3.x before 0.5.3.1; and 0.6.x before 0.6.0rc4 on Windows does not use MinGW multithread-safe exception handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted Bitcoin protocol messages.

Affected products

• Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt: version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.0.4 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.3.0 only
• Bitcoin Bitcoin Core: version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.6.0 only

Published 2012-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.