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CVE-2022-37450

Published: Aug 5, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976/core/forkchoice.go#L91-L94

x_refsource_MISC

https://medium.com/%40aviv.yaish/uncle-maker-time-stamping-out-the-competition-in-ethereum-d27c1cb62fef

x_refsource_MISC

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27813.99043

x_refsource_MISC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896

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