cve/2019/CVE-2019-15947.md

### [CVE-2019-15947](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15947)
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### Description

In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data unencrypted in memory. Upon a crash, it may dump a core file. If a user were to mishandle a core file, an attacker can reconstruct the user's wallet.dat file, including their private keys, via a grep "6231 0500" command.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16824

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/VPRLab/BlkVulnReport
- https://github.com/oxagast/oxasploits