Original sourcecryptotimes.io
Summary
XRP Ledger disclosed a major vulnerability in its payment engine that theoretically allowed bypassing the 100 billion fixed supply cap to mint and spend tokens as normal XRP. The flaw is suspected to have existed since the payment engine era around 2015, caused by a 64-bit integer overflow when han…
Key points
- Helps holders and developers understand the systemic risks of public chain payment engines and how emergency patch processes work.
- If not patched in time, this vulnerability could undermine the core trust assumption of XRP's fixed supply, impacting the ledger's entire value basis.
- Validators and node operators need to upgrade to xrpld 3.4.1 as soon as possible; exchanges and custodians should review their node versions and abnormal minting monitoring.
- The vulnerability is suspected to have existed since the payment engine era around 2015, lying dormant for about a decade before being discovered by researchers.
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