{"cve":"CVE-2022-23328","nvd":{"published":"2022-03-04T12:15:07.930","modified":"2026-07-09T01:17:14.760","status":"Modified","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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-400"],"references":["https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369","https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf","https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369","https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf"],"products":["ethereum:go_ethereum"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:28:04.509275555+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-23328","score":0.01373,"percentile":0.71977,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57","summary":"Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum","modified":"2023-11-08T04:08:17.939029Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum","ranges":["<=1.10.16"],"fixed":[]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}