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CVE-2022-23328: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

March 4, 2022 (updated March 17, 2022)

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).

References

  • ethereum.com/
  • go-ethereum.com/
  • dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23328
  • tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/evm/CVE-2022-23328.yml

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