CVE-2022-23327 Information

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).

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://go-ethereum.com https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf http://ethereum.com https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5