CVE-2022-23328 Information

Description

A design flaw in all versions of Go-Ethereum allows an attacker node to send 5120 pending transactions of a high gas price from one account that all fully spend the full balance of the account to a victim Geth node which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node’s memory pool and then occupy the memory pool to prevent new transactions from entering the pool resulting in 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