Why a bug that could have threatened XRP’s 100 billion supply cap stayed hidden for years
The XRP Ledger Foundation said normal parameters never triggered the bug that could have broken XRP’s supply cap, which is why it was undetected for years.
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Resumen
- An XRP Ledger bug that went undiscovered for more than a decade could have allowed an attacker to create billions of XRP, undermining the cryptocurrency’s 100 billion token supply cap.
- The integer-overflow flaw required hundreds of carefully constructed transactions, allowing manipulated costs to wrap to a near-zero value while seller accounts received full payments.
- Researchers reported the vulnerability on Sept. 22, and RippleX patched it after finding no evidence of exploitation or unauthorized XRP creation on a public network.
