CVE-2022-23328

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 4, 2022 at 11:24 AM UTC
Updated: July 9, 2026 at 01:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGo Ethereum

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (4)

ExploitMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369
ExploitMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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