CVE-2022-23328

HIGH

Go-Ethereum - Denial of Service via High Gas Price Transaction Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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).

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Product x_refsource_misc
http://ethereum.com
Product x_refsource_misc
http://go-ethereum.com
Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf
Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0185
EPSS Percentile 76.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
ethereum/go-ethereum 0Go
ethereum/go_ethereum
Published Mar 04, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026