XRP Ledger Patches Decade-Old Flaw That Could Have Created Extra XRP
A flaw dating to 2015 in the XRP Ledger’s payment engine could have allowed an attacker to create spendable XRP beyond its fixed supply, Bitcoin.com News reported.
The XRP Ledger has patched a payment-processing vulnerability dating to 2015 that could have enabled an attacker to create additional spendable XRP, according to Bitcoin.com News.
The flaw affected code used to settle payments through the ledger’s built-in decentralized exchange. Exploiting it could have pushed XRP beyond the network’s fixed supply.
The report said an attacker would have needed only a few hundred XRP in reserves. The supplied excerpt does not identify the patch version or establish whether anyone exploited the vulnerability.
Source: Bitcoin.com News
