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CVE-2022-23328

Published: Mar 4, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-400
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
1.8%
Top 23.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
2 Known
Remediation
Workaround Only

Description

A design flaw in all versions of Go-Ethereum allows an attacker node to send 5120 pending transactions of a high gas price from one account that all fully spend the full balance of the account to a victim Geth node, which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node's memory pool and then occupy the memory pool to prevent new transactions from entering the pool, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

n/an/a
go ethereumethereum
Mixed
OSS Libraries / generic-library
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereumGoOSS Libraries
ethereumoss-projectOSS Librariesaka go ethereum, go-ethereum, cpp-ethereum
gopackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

2 exploit sources identified

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Workaround Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Impact
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References

http://ethereum.com
ethereum.com
http://go-ethereum.com
go-ethereum.com
https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf
tristartom.github.io
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Timeline

Published
Mar 4, 2022
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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