{"id":75516,"date":"2023-03-14T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T10:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75516"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:04:55","slug":"halborn-flags-serious-vulnerability-in-dogecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/halborn-flags-serious-vulnerability-in-dogecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Halborn flags serious vulnerability in Dogecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halborn specialists detected a critical vulnerability in the Dogecoin code. They said that a similar issue affected several other networks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/ In March 2022, Halborn started to evaluate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dogecoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dogecoin<\/a> under a contract and found several vulnerabilities which were fixed by the Dogecoin team.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Halborn (@HalbornSecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalbornSecurity\/status\/1635262282610384900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Experts noted that during the contract work that began in March 2022 they detected several bugs in Dogecoin. All the bugs were promptly fixed by the developers.<\/p>\n<p>However, for security reasons, Halborn specialists did not publish details.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that similar vulnerabilities affected more than 280 networks with a total market capitalization of $25 billion, including Litecoin and ZCash.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">15 March 2023 | 19:10<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Litecoin team closed the vulnerability found by Halborn. Network participants were advised to update the Litecoin Core client to version 0.21.2.2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalbornSecurity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HalbornSecurity<\/a> notified us of a security vulnerability discovered in many crypto clients, including Litecoin Core. <\/p>\n<p>This was promptly fixed in Litecoin Core 0.21.2.2. Read more below\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet upgraded to 0.21.2.2, we\u2019d recommend upgrading upgrade ASAP! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFI7vZrfp4\">https:\/\/t.co\/bFI7vZrfp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Loshan (@loshan1212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loshan1212\/status\/1635343355646451714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The most critical flaw was related to the \u201czero-day\u201d vulnerability. The exploit allowed an attacker to remotely execute code on a mining node or carry out a <span data-descr=\"denial of service\" class=\"old_tooltip\">D\u043eS<\/span>-attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4\/ Another zero-day identified by Halborn was uniquely related to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dogecoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dogecoin<\/a>, including an RPC vulnerability impacting individual miners.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, variants of these 0-days were also discovered in similar blockchain networks potentially leading to DoS or RCE attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Halborn (@HalbornSecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalbornSecurity\/status\/1635262285596749826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cExperts noted that efforts were made to contact the affected networks for responsible disclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the OpenSea NFT marketplace developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opensea-closes-vulnerability-that-could-have-exposed-users-personal-data\">patched the critical vulnerability<\/a> detected by Imperva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halborn specialists detected a critical vulnerability in the Dogecoin code. 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