CVE-2022-37450

EPSS 1.0%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 1.0%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

05 Aug 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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 products

n/a · n/a

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References

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27813.99043 https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976/core/forkchoice.go#L91-L94 https://medium.com/%40aviv.yaish/uncle-maker-time-stamping-out-the-competition-in-ethereum-d27c1cb62fef https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896