The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability
References
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http://www.mit.edu/~jlrubin//public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf | Technical Description |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98657 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1604/1604.00575.pdf | Technical Description |
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/013996.html | Mailing List Technical Description Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014349.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014351.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014352.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
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Summary | The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability |
Information
Published : 2017-05-24 16:29
Updated : 2024-08-05 17:15
NVD link : CVE-2017-9230
Mitre link : CVE-2017-9230
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-9230
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Products Affected
bitcoin
- bitcoin
CWE
CWE-338
Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)