Bitcoin Core Speeds Fixes for Easily Discoverable Vulnerabilities

Bitcoin Core changed its security policy Thursday, Oct. 22, to speed repairs for vulnerabilities developers classify as “easily discoverable,” a category that includes flaws a simple large language model prompt can uncover. The policy calls for fixes across all maintained major releases as soon as possible, with a security advisory published alongside them. The policy sets no numeric threshold for “easily discoverable” and says the category is not limited to flaws found with AI. A simple prompt to a large language model is one example. The classification turns on how easily a bug can be found, rather than whether AI discovered it. Other vulnerabilities remain subject to severity-based disclosure schedules. Details of low-severity flaws become public two weeks after a major release includes a fix.

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