Disk exhaustion via spoofed self-connection log flooding
Published Oct 28, 2025 · Updated Oct 28, 2025
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Bitcoin Core 29.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to exhaust disk space via spoofed self-connections. The peer-to-peer connection handler logs every detected self-connection without rate limiting after matching an inbound version-message nonce to an existing outbound connection. Exploitation requires the victim node first to connect to an attacker-controlled peer; the nonce remains reusable only during the default 60-second timeout, so disk exhaustion requires sustained repetition over a long period.
Summary
What happened
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Bitcoin Core 29.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to exhaust disk space via spoofed self-connections. The peer-to-peer connection handler logs every detected self-connection without rate limiting after matching an inbound version-message nonce to an existing outbound connection. Exploitation requires the victim node first to connect to an attacker-controlled peer; the nonce remains reusable only during the default 60-second timeout, so disk exhaustion requires sustained repetition over a long period.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-54604
- Published
- Oct 28, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
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- Oct 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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