CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-23327
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-03-04
- Last modified
- 2026-07-09
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
A design flaw in Go-Ethereum 1.10.12 and older versions allows an attacker node to send 5120 future transactions with a high gas price in one message, which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node's memory pool, causing a denial of service (DoS).
Affected configurations
• ethereum go ethereum (<= 1.10.12)
References
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory