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 that all fully spend the full balance of the account to a victim Geth node, which can purge all of pending…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.37% probability · 70th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- ethereum/go ethereum
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdfExploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdfExploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.