ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian stated on social media that the vulnerability CVE for Bitcoin ordinal inscriptions has been officially adopted by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), with a CVSS vulnerability score of 5.3, indicating a medium severity level.Earlier reports indicated that Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr stated that the "inscription" exploiting a vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core client has been assigned the identifier CVE-2023-50428.

ChainCatcher message, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website shows that Bitcoin inscriptions have been added to the National Vulnerability Database, with the identifier CVE-2023-50428. This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.NIST describes the vulnerability as the ability to bypass data carrier size limits in Bitcoin nodes prior to the upgrade of Bitcoin Core to 26.0 and Bitcoin Knots to 25.1.knots20231115 by obfuscating data into code (for example, using OP_FALSE OP_IF). Inscriptions from 2022 and 2023 exploited these vulnerabilities.