CVE-2022-23328: ethereum go_ethereum Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-23328 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ethereum go_ethereum. EPSS estimates a 1.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Timeline
- 04-03-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 09-07-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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 metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.37%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
72%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.37% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
2 foundExploit Reference (tristartom.github.io)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (dl.acm.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ethereum1 product
Github.com/ethereum1 product
- go-ethereum≤ 1.10.16
2 vendors · 2 products
References
6 links- dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369WEBExploitMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- ethereum.comWEB