Vulnerability Details CVE-2022-40769
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.014
EPSS Ranking 79.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2022-40769
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.1.10
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.1.9
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.4.7
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:0.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.11
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.12
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.21
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.22
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.31
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.50
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cpe:2.3:a:profanity_project:profanity:1.60