CVE-2022-23327 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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).

Published: 2022-03-04

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:go_ethereum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-1505	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).
Github GHSA	GHSA-pvx3-gm3c-gmpr	Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00533.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://ethereum.com
http://go-ethereum.com
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369
https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf

History

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Subscriptions

Ethereum Go Ethereum

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-03-04T11:24:13.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:36:20.397Z

Reserved: 2022-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-23327

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-04T12:15:07.880

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:48:24.577

Link: CVE-2022-23327

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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