CVE-2022-37450

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Last Modified on: 08/06/2022 02:35:00 AM UTC

CVE-2022-37450

The following vulnerability was found:

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.

CVE-2022-37450 has been assigned by [email protected] to track the vulnerability

CVE References

Description	Tags ^ⓘ	Link
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum \| by Aviv Yaish \| Aug, 2022 \| Medium	medium.com text/html	MISC medium.com/@aviv.yaish/uncle-maker-time-stamping-out-the-competition-in-ethereum-d27c1cb62fef
go-ethereum/forkchoice.go at 671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976 · ethereum/go-ethereum · GitHub	github.com text/html	MISC github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976/core/forkchoice.go#L91-L94
Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum \| Hacker News	news.ycombinator.com text/html	MISC news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896
Please Wait... \| Cloudflare	dx.doi.org text/html Inactive LinkNot Archived	MISC dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27813.99043

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Social Mentions

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@CVEreport	CVE-2022-37450 : Go Ethereum aka geth through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increase rewards by mining blocks in ce… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…	2022-08-05 21:08:34
@Robo_Alerts	Potentially Critical CVE Detected! CVE-2022-37450 Go Ethereum (aka geth) through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…	2022-08-05 22:56:00