CVE-2024-52916: Bitcoin Core

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Bitcoin Core before 0.15.0 allows a denial of service (OOM kill of a daemon process) via a flood of minimum difficulty headers.

Affected products

• Bitcoin Bitcoin Core: before 0.15.0 (fixed in 0.15.0)

Published 2024-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.