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BIP125 opt-in RBF discrepancy receives public security/CVE treatment

A discrepancy between BIP125's opt-in Replace-by-Fee wording and actual Bitcoin Core behavior was later assigned CVE treatment. The issue illustrated how wallet and application assumptions about replacement signaling could diverge from node-policy behavior even without creating a consensus failure.

A discrepancy between BIP125's opt-in Replace-by-Fee wording and actual Bitcoin Core behavior was later assigned CVE treatment. The issue illustrated how wallet and application assumptions about replacement signaling could diverge from node-policy behavior even without creating a consensus failure.

Useful Bitcoin security history showing assumption/implementation mismatch; limited end-user consequence.

Sources

  1. Bitcoin Optech