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XRPL Patched a Bug That Could Have Created XRP Out of Thin Air
A vulnerability in XRP Ledger exposed a serious weakness in one of the blockchain’s most important safeguards: preventing unauthorized XRP creation.
According to XRPL’s vulnerability disclosure report published on October 9, 2026, the issue involved an integer overflow in payment processing. The bug could allow an attacker to receive far more XRP than the amount actually charged, potentially creating new XRP in the process.
The attack relied on hundreds of accounts placing offers to exchange tokens for XRP. When a payment matched enough offers, the total XRP amount could exceed the limit of a 64-bit integer. Instead of handling the overflow safely, the calculation could wrap around to a much smaller value.
The troubling part is that XRPL’s supply-integrity check could also be affected by a similar overflow, potentially allowing the newly created XRP to escape detection.
RippleX reportedly reproduced the issue in a test environment after researchers Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported it through the bug bounty program on September 22.
The fix arrived in xrpld 3.4.1, released on September 25, 2026. It introduced stronger overflow checks and improved the safeguards used to verify XRP supply integrity.
XRPL stated that it had found no evidence of exploitation on public networks.
That distinction matters. The vulnerability demonstrated a way XRP could potentially be created without proper backing, but it does not mean additional XRP was actually created on Mainnet.
For me, the bigger takeaway is how much depends on seemingly small details in blockchain arithmetic. A single overflow in payment logic can undermine a supply rule that users expect the entire network to enforce.
The patch addresses the immediate issue, but the incident is also a reminder that even established blockchains need continuous security reviews of their core transaction logic.
#XRP #XRPL #BlockchainSecurity
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XRPL Patched a Bug That Could Have Created XRP Out of Thin Air
A vulnerability in XRP Ledger exposed a serious weakness in one of the blockchain’s most important safeguards: preventing unauthorized XRP creation.
According to XRPL’s vulnerability disclosure report published on October 9, 2026, the issue involved an integer overflow in payment processing. The bug could allow an attacker to receive far more XRP than the amount actually charged, potentially creating new XRP in the process.
The attack relied on hundreds of accounts placing offers to exchange tokens for XRP. When a payment matched enough offers, the total XRP amount could exceed the limit of a 64-bit integer. Instead of handling the overflow safely, the calculation could wrap around to a much smaller value.
The troubling part is that XRPL’s supply-integrity check could also be affected by a similar overflow, potentially allowing the newly created XRP to escape detection.
RippleX reportedly reproduced the issue in a test environment after researchers Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported it through the bug bounty program on September 22.
The fix arrived in xrpld 3.4.1, released on September 25, 2026. It introduced stronger overflow checks and improved the safeguards used to verify XRP supply integrity.
XRPL stated that it had found no evidence of exploitation on public networks.
That distinction matters. The vulnerability demonstrated a way XRP could potentially be created without proper backing, but it does not mean additional XRP was actually created on Mainnet.
For me, the bigger takeaway is how much depends on seemingly small details in blockchain arithmetic. A single overflow in payment logic can undermine a supply rule that users expect the entire network to enforce.
The patch addresses the immediate issue, but the incident is also a reminder that even established blockchains need continuous security reviews of their core transaction logic.
#XRP #XRPL #BlockchainSecurity
$NEAR $PIXEL $BTC