Lightning Network users urged to update software urgently due to discovered vulnerability

Bitcoin developer Rusty Russell discovered a vulnerability in various Lightning Network (LN) implementations that could lead to a loss of funds.

Upgrade #lightning nodes please! c-lightning <0.7.1, lnd <0.7, eclair <= 0.3 vulnerable: https://t.co/4E2hHUy386

– TheRustyTwit (@rusty_twit) August 30, 2019

According to him, users of the Eclair wallet from the French startup ACINQ, c-lightning from Blockstream and the lnd client from Lightning Labs need to urgently update the software. Russell also wrote that details of the vulnerability would be released in a few weeks, September 27th.

ACINQ representatives thanked the developer for the information provided:

A vulnerability has been found and fixed in various LN projects, including Eclair.

Please upgrade to Eclair 0.3.1 / Eclair Mobile 0.4.7+ ASAP.

Congrats to @rusty_twit for discovering the issue ? https://t.co/ZsU5X346iw

– ACINQ (@acinq_co) August 30, 2019

“The vulnerability has been found and fixed in various LN projects, including Eclair. Please upgrade to Eclair 0.3.1 and Eclair Mobile 0.4.7 as soon as possible ”

Lightning Network is a payment protocol that allows you to conduct cheap and instant transactions, which also represents a solution to the problem of bitcoin scaling.

According to the 1ML service, currently there are 9722 nodes in the Lightning Network, linking 36 554 payment channels. Network capacity exceeds 850 BTC (> $ 8.1 million).

Recall that earlier Vitalik Buterin supported the idea of integrating the Lightning Network with Ethereum .

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