CVE-2022-37450
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2022-37450 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2022-08-05 21:15:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2023-11-07 03:49:00 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Ethereum | Go Ethereum | All | All | All | All |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum | by Aviv Yaish | Aug, 2022 | Medium | MISC | medium.com | |
| Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum | by Aviv Yaish | Aug, 2022 | Medium | medium.com | ||
| go-ethereum/forkchoice.go at 671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976 · ethereum/go-ethereum · GitHub | MISC | github.com | |
| Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum | Hacker News | MISC | news.ycombinator.com | |
| Please Wait... | Cloudflare | MISC | dx.doi.org | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 502560 Alpine Linux Security Update for geth