{"id":"CVE-2022-23328","title":"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 o…","summary":"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 o…","severity":"high","cvss":7.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-400"],"vendor":"ethereum","product":"go_ethereum","affected":["go_ethereum"],"published":"2022-03-04","updated":"2026-07-05","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23328","references":[{"url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369","label":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf","label":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://ethereum.com","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://go-ethereum.com","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.01373,"epssPercentile":0.70337,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-06T02:09:23.403Z","slug":"CVE-2022-23328","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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).\n\n## Affected\n\n- `go_ethereum`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":42,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":41.3,"likelihood":0.3,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}