5.9

CVE-2022-29177: ethereum go_ethereum Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 5.9v3.1MediumModified
AliasesGHSA-wjxw-gh3m-7pm5GO-2022-0456
Published 20-05-2022Last modified 23-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-29177 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ethereum go_ethereum. EPSS estimates a 1.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
24/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.9/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.16%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1

Timeline

  1. 20-05-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.17, a vulnerable node, if configured to use high verbosity logging, can be made to crash when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. Version 1.10.17 contains a patch that addresses the problem. As a workaround, setting loglevel to default level (`INFO`) makes the node not vulnerable to this attack.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

67%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 1.14% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ethereum2 products
Github.com/ethereum1 product
  • go-ethereum< 1.10.17

2 vendors · 3 products

References

3 links