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CVE-2022-40769

CVE-2022-40769

EPSS 1.0%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://blog.1inch.io/a-vulnerability-disclosed-in-profanity-an-ethereum-vanity-address-tool-68ed7455fc8chttps://github.com/johguse/profanityhttps://github.com/johguse/profanity/issues/61