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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27813.99043 | Broken Link |
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976/core/forkchoice.go#L91-L94 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://medium.com/%40aviv.yaish/uncle-maker-time-stamping-out-the-competition-in-ethereum-d27c1cb62fef | |
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896 | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-08-05T20:30:46
Updated: 2022-08-05T20:30:46
Reserved: 2022-08-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2022-37450
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-08-05T21:15:09.087
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:49:51.753
Link: CVE-2022-37450
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