Bitcoin Core Speeds Fixes for Easily Discovered Vulnerabilities

Bitcoin Core’s revised policy brings faster fixes and advisories for easily rediscovered flaws, while keeping other vulnerabilities on severity-based disclosure schedules. Bitcoin Core has changed its security-disclosure policy to deliver faster fixes for vulnerabilities that attackers can rediscover with little effort, including through a simple prompt to an AI language model. The change was merged into the project’s website repository on October 22 and appears in the live security policy. Bugs classified as easily discoverable will receive point releases for every maintained major version as soon as possible, accompanied by a security advisory.