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Bitcoin developers refuse to add inscription to national vulnerability database.

adminDecember 12, 2023

Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has denied having any role in adding Bitcoin as a cybersecurity risk to the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD)’s list of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).

Dashjr posted to It caused controversy by claiming that it was sending “.

Some observers pointed to Dashjr a few days later when the Bitcoin inscription appeared in the US vulnerability database as part of a list of CVEs on December 9, describing it as a security flaw that enabled the development of the Ordinals protocol in 2022.

However, Dashjr told Cointelegraph that despite being an outspoken critic of Bitcoin Ordinals, it played no role in adding the inscription to the vulnerability database’s list of CVEs.

Interestingly, the CVE list is designed to allow any developer to report vulnerabilities. They are generally listed if the CVE assignment team determines them to be important for public awareness.

The inscriptions are given vulnerability points, which isn’t all that bad.

On December 11, the NVD updated the list, assigning the inscription a default severity score of “5.3 moderate.”

A mid-score indicates a vulnerability whose exploit would provide “very limited” access to the network or a very difficult-to-execute denial-of-service attack, according to data from software company Atlassian.

The CVE list assigned a median score of 5.3 to the Inscriptions list. Source: NVD

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Dashjr said the main factor behind the 5.3 score on the CVE list was the vulnerability’s low availability impact on the Bitcoin network, but argued that the score may underestimate its potential long-term impact.

“We believe this (score) does not take into account the long-term impact of blockchain expansion and may underestimate the impact. “If we classified the availability impact as ‘high,’ the CVSS base score would be 7.5,” he said.

Debate over the nature of the Bitcoin inscription continues to rage across social media. While many Bitcoin users claim that the epitaph is “spamming the network,” defenders of Ordinals, such as Udi Wertheimer, co-founder of Taproot Wizards, believe that Ordinals are very important for the next generation of adoption and monetization of the Bitcoin network. They say it’s important.

The Bitcoin network has been experiencing increased congestion over the past few months due to the widespread craze over Ordinals’ non-fungible token inscription and the issuance of BRC-20 tokens.

According to mempool.space, there are more than 275,000 unconfirmed transactions, and the average medium priority transaction cost has increased from about $1.50 to about $14. Once the so-called inscription bug is patched, it could potentially limit future Ordinals inscriptions on the network.

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