CVE-2022-23328

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).

Weakness classification

• CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory