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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-23328 json

Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

published 2022-03-04 4 y ago modified 2026-07-09 4 mo ago also GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57 , EUVD-2022-1547

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Exploit prediction

1.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • tristartom.github.io https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • dl.acm.org https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
<=1.10.16
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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