# BitBox Patches Two Severe Firmware Flaws Found by Its Own AI-Assisted Audit

One defect let a malicious host execute arbitrary code on unconfigured devices, and a second could lock bitcoin to an address the owner never chose, with no exploitation identified.

- Published: 2026-08-19T05:47:33.890Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-19/bitbox-patches-two-severe-firmware-flaws-found-by-its-own-ai
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Bitcoin Magazine](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitbox-warns-users-about-vulnerability), [arXiv cs.CR](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16970), [Bitcointalk Dev & Technical](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257785.160)

The Swiss hardware-wallet maker BitBox told users it had fixed severe vulnerabilities in its firmware and asked them to update. The first flaw involved memory corruption on BitBox02 Multi and BitBox02 Nova devices that had not yet been set…

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