Description
The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum consensus protocol through 2021-10-19 allows an adversary to cause a denial of service (delayed consensus decisions), and also increase the profits of individual validators, via short-range reorganizations of the underlying consensus chain.
Published: 2021-10-20
Score: 9.1 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-29722 The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum consensus protocol through 2021-10-19 allows an adversary to cause a denial of service (delayed consensus decisions), and also increase the profits of individual validators, via short-range reorganizations of the underlying consensus chain.
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Proof-of-stake Ethereum Project Proof-of-stake Ethereum
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:38:50.274Z

Reserved: 2021-10-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-42764

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-20T20:15:07.427

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:28:07.660

Link: CVE-2021-42764

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