CVE-2022-23327

moderate-risk
Published 2022-03-04

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).

Do I need to act?

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0.53% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Ethereum

References (8)

Broken Link http://ethereum.com
Broken Link http://go-ethereum.com
Exploit https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369
Exploit https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf
Broken Link http://ethereum.com
Broken Link http://go-ethereum.com
Exploit https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369
Exploit https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal