Bitcoin’s inscriptions have been added to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which highlights them as a security vulnerability that played a key role in the creation of the Ordinals Protocol last year.
The NVD’s records indicate that certain versions of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots are susceptible to a datacarrier limit bypass, which allows data to be disguised as code. The document mentions that the issue was exploited in the real world by Inscriptions in 2022 and 2023.
The NVD’s database, which is managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) includes cybersecurity vulnerabilities that have been recognized, catalogued, and considered important for public awareness.
The vulnerability of Bitcoin’s network is being examined. One possible consequence is that the blockchain could be flooded with large amounts of non-transactional data, which could inflate the network size and negatively impact transaction speed and fees.
The NVD’s website showcases a recent post from Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr on X (formerly Twitter), in which Dashjr says that inscriptions use a Bitcoin Core flaw to spam the network.
If the flaw is patched, Ordinals inscriptions on the network would no longer be possible, although existing inscriptions wouldn’t be affected.
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- Source: https://www.cryptocompare.com/email-updates/daily/2023/dec/11/
