CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-23328
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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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).
Affected configurations
• ethereum go ethereum
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
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