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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2022-40769 EUVD-2022-44035GHSA-9q2f-7hm7-62h6

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity ad…

Published Sep 18, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 2 repositories

  • PLSRcoin/CVE-2022-40769 ★ 1 · Jan 28, 2023

    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 i…

  • artsbykriss/profanity-verifier ★ 0 · Sep 23, 2026

    Provable check for CVE-2022-40769: does an EOA's private key lie in the Profanity-reachable key space?

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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