PT-2022-15930 · Unknown · Go-Ethereum

Published 2022-03-04 · Updated 2022-03-17 · CVE-2022-23327

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Go-Ethereum versions 1.10.12 and older

Description A design flaw 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).

Recommendations For Go-Ethereum versions 1.10.12 and older, update to a version newer than 1.10.12 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-23327

GHSA-PVX3-GM3C-GMPR

Affected Products

Go-Ethereum

References · 9

• 🔥 https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf · Exploit
• 🔥 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23327 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pvx3-gm3c-gmpr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23327 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/38406 · Telegram Post
• http://go-ethereum.com · Note
• http://ethereum.com · Note