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Vulnerability · CVE-2022-40769

profanity_project profanity Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Published Sep 18, 2022 · catalog updated Sep 18, 2022 · profanity_project profanity Use of

Patch now

CVE-2022-40769 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm profanity_project profanity Use of against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (profanity_project profanity Use of).
  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
1.49%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor profanity_project profanity

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor profanity_project profanityversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2022-40769

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2022-40769 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm profanity_project profanity Use of against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 1.49%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Sep 18, 2022 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.

  2. Sep 18, 2022 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2022-40769

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2022-40769

    30-day exploitation probability 1.5%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-40769

    profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022.

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.