Bitcoin Core developers: The vulnerability exploited by inscriptions in the Bitcoin Core client has been assigned the identifier CVE-2023-50428

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr posted on platform X that the "inscriptions" exploit has been assigned the identifier CVE-2023-50428 due to a vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core client.

Previously reported, Luke Dashjr indicated that inscriptions are exploiting a vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core client to send spam to the blockchain. Since 2013, Bitcoin Core has allowed users to set an additional data size limit ('-datacarriersize') when forwarding or mining transactions. Inscriptions bypassed this limit by disguising their data as program code.