CVE-2022-23327

high

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).

References

https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369

http://go-ethereum.com

http://ethereum.com

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-04

Updated: 2022-03-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High