CVE-2022-24916 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Optimism before @eth-optimism/l2geth@0.5.11 allows economic griefing because a balance is duplicated upon contract self-destruction.

Published: 2022-02-10

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:optimism:eth-optimism\/l2geth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2022-29671	Optimism before @eth-optimism/l2geth@0.5.11 allows economic griefing because a balance is duplicated upon contract self-destruction.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00419.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/compare/%40eth-optimism%2Fl2geth%400.5.10...%40eth-optimism%2Fl2geth%400.5.11
https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/pull/2146
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30289240
https://optimismpbc.medium.com/disclosure-fixing-a-critical-bug-in-optimisms-geth-fork-a836ebdf7c94
https://www.saurik.com/optimism.html

History

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Subscriptions

Optimism Eth-optimism\/l2geth

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-02-10T19:07:31.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:29:01.657Z

Reserved: 2022-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-24916

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-10T20:15:07.387

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:32:47.447

Link: CVE-2022-24916

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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