The U.S. NIST has added Bitcoin inscriptions to the National Vulnerability Database and is awaiting analysis

ChainCatcher message, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website shows that Bitcoin inscriptions have been added to the National Vulnerability Database, with the identifier CVE-2023-50428. This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

NIST describes the vulnerability as the ability to bypass data carrier size limits in Bitcoin nodes prior to the upgrade of Bitcoin Core to 26.0 and Bitcoin Knots to 25.1.knots20231115 by obfuscating data into code (for example, using OPFALSE OPIF). Inscriptions from 2022 and 2023 exploited these vulnerabilities.