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).
Published: 2022-03-04
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1547 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).
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57 Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum
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Ethereum Go Ethereum
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:36:20.422Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-23328

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-04T12:15:07.930

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:48:24.750

Link: CVE-2022-23328

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