Description
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).
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 7.5/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdfExploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369Exploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdfExploit, Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Mar 4, 2022
- Last modified
- Jul 9, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified