CVE-2022-23328 Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

What is CVE-2022-23328?

CVE-2022-23328 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 4 Mar 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-23328?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum. It affects 1 product.

Products include Ethereum Go Ethereum.

How do I fix CVE-2022-23328?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-23328 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-23328 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-23328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2026-26314 Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message High 8.7
• CVE-2023-42319 go-ethereum vulnerable to denial of service via crafted GraphQL query High 7.5
• CVE-2023-40591 Denial of service via malicious p2p message in go-ethereum High 7.5
• CVE-2021-42219 Denial of service in go-ethereum High 7.5
• CVE-2022-23327 Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57.