profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-18T16:01:08

Updated: 2022-09-18T16:01:08

Reserved: 2022-09-18T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2022-40769

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-09-18T17:15:09.667

Modified: 2022-09-21T14:33:02.350


Link: CVE-2022-40769

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