US National Vulnerability Database Flags Bitcoin Inscription as Cybersecurity Risk

On December 11th, Cointelegraph reported that the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD) identified Bitcoin Script as a cybersecurity risk on December 9th, urging people to pay attention to security vulnerabilities in the Ordinals Protocol development for 2022. According to database records, in certain versions of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knot, data restrictions can be bypassed by blurring data as code. The vulnerability is currently under analysis, and as a potential impact, it may cause a large amount of non-transaction data to flood the blockchain, potentially increasing network size and having adverse effects on performance and fees.

It is reported that being added to the NVD list means that specific cybersecurity vulnerabilities have been identified, recorded, and deemed to be made public. The database is managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a subsidiary of the US Department of Commerce.