Resource exhaustion in Ethereum Go
CVE-2022-23328
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).
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.014 (70.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Product)
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Product)
- tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Mitigation)
- dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Mitigation)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-23328?
- CVE-2022-23328 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ethereum Go, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-03-04.
- How severe is CVE-2022-23328?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2022-23328 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.