XRP Ledger Fixes Decade-Old Bug That Could Have Inflated XRP Supply

XRP Ledger developers have patched a decade-old security flaw that could have allowed attackers to create billions of dollars’ worth of XRP without paying for it, exposing a weakness in the network’s transaction accounting. The vulnerability affected the payment engine responsible for processing transactions through XRP Ledger’s built-in decentralized exchange. Researchers demonstrated that specially constructed transactions could generate spendable XRP beyond the network’s intended supply. RippleX subsequently investigated the flaw and reported no evidence that it had been exploited on public networks. The discovery is significant because XRP does not use mining or staking rewards to issue new tokens.

Source: Crypto News Flash