GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57HighCVSS 7.5

Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

Published
March 5, 2022
Last Modified
February 3, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (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 products1

  • go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum:<= 1.10.16

🔗 References (6)