Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 20, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-1000851

Description

Copay Bitcoin Wallet version 5.01 to 5.1.0 included. contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in wallet private key storage that can result in Users' private key can be compromised. . This attack appear to be exploitable via Affected version run the malicious code at startup . This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.2.0 and later .

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Affected products

Bitpay/Copayinferred
Range: >=5.01,<=5.1.0
Copay/Copay Bitcoin Walletllm-create
Range: 5.0.1 - 5.1.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/bitpay/copay/issues/9346nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacker-backdoors-widely-used-open-source-software-to-steal-bitcoin/nvdThird Party Advisory
blog.bitpay.com/npm-package-vulnerability-copay/nvdThird Party Advisory

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