Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashzer has denied playing any role in the addition of Bitcoin inscriptions as a cybersecurity risk to the United States National Vulnerability Database (NVD) Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) list.
Dashjr on December 6 Embed data on Satoshi – Exploit a Bitcoin Core vulnerability to “spam the blockchain”.
PSA: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability #bitcoin Core to spamming the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of additional data to relay or mine (‘-datacarriersize’) transactions. By obfuscating their data in the form of program code,…
– Luke Dashjr (@LukeDashjr) 6 December 2023
Some observers pointed to Dashajr a few days later, when Bitcoin inscriptions appeared On the US vulnerability database as part of CVE List On December 9, which It has been told This is a security flaw that enabled the development of the Ordinals Protocol in 2022.
However, despite being a vocal Bitcoin Ordinals critic, Dashjr told Cointelegraph that he had no role in adding the inscription to the vulnerability database’s CVE list.
Interestingly, the CVE list is designed so that any developer can file a vulnerability. It is generally listed unless the CVE assignment team deems it important for public awareness.
Inscriptions get a vulnerability score, and it’s not too bad
On 11 December, the NVD updated the list by giving the inscriptions a base severity score of “5.3 medium”.
According According to data from software firm Atlassian, a medium score refers to a vulnerability where exploitation provides “very limited” access to a network or denial of service attacks that are significantly more difficult to execute.
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Dashjr said that a major factor in the CVE lists’ score of 5.3 was due to the vulnerability having a low availability impact on the Bitcoin network, but he argued that the score may overstate its potential long-term impacts.
“I think [score] By failing to consider the long-term effects of blockchain bloat, the impact may be underestimated. If they had classified the availability impact as ‘high’, the CVSS base score would have been 7.5,” he said.
There is ongoing debate on social media regarding the nature of Bitcoin inscriptions. While many Bitcoiners claim that ordinals are “spamming the network”, proponents of ordinals, such as Taproot Wizards co-founder Udi Wertheimer, say that ordinals are vital to the next major wave of adoption and revenue generation for the Bitcoin network. Are.
Ordinals are a bug pic.twitter.com/vU0CXgD9wY
– Udi Werthaimer (@udiWerthaimer) 12 December 2023
The Bitcoin network has seen congestion over the past few months due to the widespread craze towards non-fungible token issuances of ordinals and BRC-20 token Casting.
According On mempool.space, there are more than 275,000 unconfirmed transactions, and the average medium-priority transaction cost has increased from about $1.50 to almost $14. If the so-called inscription bug has been fixed, it Could potentially prohibit future Ordinals inscriptions On the network.
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