Vulnerability record · CVE-2022-23328 · published 4 March 2022
CVE-2022-23328: Go ethereum uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability
Ethereum · Go Ethereum
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).
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).
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369 | ExploitMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory |
| https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf | 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 | ExploitMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory |
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Related vulnerabilities
Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2022-23328), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.
