CVE-2022-37450

MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.22%

Go Ethereum allows attackers to use manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks

Published: 8/6/2022Modified: 11/8/2023

Description

Go Ethereum (aka geth) through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increase rewards by mining blocks in certain situations, and using a manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks, aka Riskless Uncle Making (RUM), as exploited in the wild in 2020 through 2022.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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