According to a Monday post by blockchain security firm Halborn, a vulnerability discovered last year in the open-source codebase of the Dogecoin network is still present in at least 280 other networks.
Halborn’s investigations revealed that similar vulnerabilities existed in a number of other networks, including Litecoin and Zcash. According to Halborn, this could expose over $25 billion in tokens to potential security risks.
The vulnerability has been dubbed “Rab13s” by Halborn. According to the researchers, the most critical vulnerability discovered in the affected networks is related to how peer-to-peer (p2p) communications are carried out in these networks.
An attacker can send malicious consensus messages to individual nodes in the network, causing them to shut down and leaving the entire network vulnerable to 51% attacks or other severe issues.
While some of the vulnerabilities were previously found on the bitcoin network, Halborn also identified a zero-day vulnerability that was uniquely related to Dogecoin. This particular vulnerability was related to Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services, which could allow attackers to execute code remotely and impact individual miners.
(With inputs from Shikha Singh)
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