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CVE-2022-23327

Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

Impact

A design flaw in Go-Ethereum 1.10.12 and older versions allows an attacker node to send 5120 future transactions with a high gas price in one message, which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node's memory pool, causing a denial of service (DoS).

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
gogithub.com/ethereum/go-ethereum<= 1.10.12none recorded

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
EthereumGo Ethereum
through 1.10.12

Weakness classification

References