01 Record
CVE-2021-3401
Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 10.47% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-02-04 04:47Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 16:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-02-04
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-88Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 56a80fe4a0b980946a318fa02640483172b055a0371701939980843fae1d6b92
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- achow101.comhttps://achow101.com/2021/02/0.18-uri-vuln
- github.comhttps://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16578