GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57 Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

HIGH Published 2022-03-05 Modified 2022-03-18 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2022-23328
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2022-03-09

Affected packages

• Go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum: <= 1.10.16 (no fix yet)

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).

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2022-23328 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References