artsbykriss/profanity-verifier

PoC

Provable check for CVE-2022-40769: does an EOA's private key lie in the Profanity-reachable key space?

view exploit source poc_in_githubauthor artsbykrisspublished 2026-09-23catalog poc_in_github

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2022-40769US	high7.5	1.49% (74th)	Exploit	2022-09-18
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 expl…

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