Vulnerability Details : CVE-2022-23327
Potential exploit
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).
Vulnerability category: Denial of service
Products affected by CVE-2022-23327
- cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:go_ethereum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-23327
0.51%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 64 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2022-23327
| Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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5.0
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MEDIUM | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
10.0
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2.9
|
NIST | |
|
7.5
|
HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
3.9
|
3.6
|
NIST |
References for CVE-2022-23327
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http://ethereum.com
Broken Link;Not Applicable
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http://go-ethereum.com
go-ethereum.com - This website is for sale! - go ethereum Resources and Information.Broken Link
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https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf
Exploit;Mitigation;Technical Description;Third Party Advisory
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369
DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications SecurityExploit;Mitigation;Technical Description;Third Party Advisory
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