Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1000022 - Missing Authorization vulnerability in Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
Electrum Technologies GmbH Electrum Bitcoin Wallet version prior to version 3.0.5 contains a Missing Authorization vulnerability in JSONRPC interface that can result in Bitcoin theft, if the user's wallet is not password protected. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must visit a web page with specially crafted javascript. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 3.0.5.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2702103.0
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2702103.0
- https://electrum.org/#home
- https://electrum.org/#home
- https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3374
- https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3374
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7ooack/critical_electrum_vulnerability/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7ooack/critical_electrum_vulnerability/