---
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: 0.70753
ingestedAt: '2026-07-06T02:09:23.403Z'
---

## Overview

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).

## Affected

- `go_ethereum`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.