CVE-2016-8889: Bitcoin Knots Project Bitcoin Knots

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Bitcoin Knots v0.11.0.ljr20150711 through v0.13.0.knots20160814 (fixed in v0.13.1.knots20161027), the debug console stores sensitive information including private keys and the wallet passphrase in its persistent command history.

Affected products

• Bitcoin Knots Project Bitcoin Knots: version 0.11.0 only; version 0.11.1 only; version 0.11.2 only; version 0.12.0 only; version 0.12.0.knots20160226 only; version 0.12.1.knots20160629 only; …

Published 2016-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.