GHSA-pvx3-gm3c-gmpr

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    GHSA-pvx3-gm3c-gmpr

    Published: 5 Mar 2022Last Modified: 2 Sept 2026

    Summary: Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

    Details: 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).

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23327, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369, https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum, https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0156-mempool-pending-eviction-flood, https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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