CVE-2022-23328

Public Exploit

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).

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.51%
Third-Party Advisory acm.org Third-Party Advisory github.io
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://ethereum.com product
http://go-ethereum.com product
https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf mitigation exploit third party advisory technical description
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 mitigation exploit third party advisory technical description

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2022-23328?
CVE-2022-23328 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2022-23328?
To fix CVE-2022-23328, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2022-23328 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2022-23328 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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