XRP Ledger Patches Decade-Old Bug That Could Have Minted Trillions
Developers said a critical-severity flaw in the network’s payment engine could have let an attacker create XRP. The bug had been in the code since 2015; the disclosure report said there was no evidence it had been exploited.
XRP Ledger developers said Friday that a vulnerability in the network’s payment engine could have enabled an attacker to create XRP from nothing. A disclosure report said the critical-severity flaw had been present in the code since 2015 and that there was “no evidence that this issue was exploited on any pub…