CVE-2022-37450

Published Aug 5, 2022

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 5.9

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.9
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 2.2
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ethereum:go_ethereum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "EA2DEA63-8338-4869-83DA-D5ED75A6D76B",
            "versionEndIncluding": "1.10.21"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References