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github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

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  • Medium 6.9

    Go Ethereum Improperly Validates the ECIES Public Key in RLPx Handshake

    go-ethereum (Geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.16.9, through a flaw in the ECIES cryptography implementation, an attacker may be able to extract bits of the p2p node key. The issue is resolved in the…

  • High 8.7

    Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.16.9, a vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. The problem is resolved in the v1.16.9 and v1.17.0 releases o…

  • Medium 6.9

    Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.17.0, an attacker can cause high memory usage by sending a specially-crafted p2p message. The issue is resolved in the v1.17.0 release.

  • High 7.1

    go-ethereum has a DoS via malicious p2p message

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.8.

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2026-22862 Public exploit

    go-ethereum has a DoS via malicious p2p message

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.8.

  • High 8.7

    go-ethereum has a DoS via malicious p2p message

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.14.13.

  • High 7.5

    go-ethereum denial of service via malicious p2p message

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to 1.13.15, a vulnerable node can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix ha…

  • High 7.5

    go-ethereum vulnerable to denial of service via crafted GraphQL query

    Geth (aka go-ethereum) through 1.13.4, when --http --graphql is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon hang) via a crafted GraphQL query. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the "graphql endpoint [is not] des…

  • High 7.5

    Denial of service via malicious p2p message in go-ethereum

    go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node, can be made to consume unbounded amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix is included in geth …

  • Medium 5.9

    Go Ethereum allows attackers to use manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks

    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 i…

  • Medium 5.9

    DoS via malicious p2p message in Go-Ethereum

    Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.17, a vulnerable node, if configured to use high verbosity logging, can be made to crash when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node.…

  • High 7.5

    Denial of service in go-ethereum

    Go-Ethereum v1.10.9 was discovered to contain an issue which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via sending an excessive amount of messages to a node. This is caused by missing memory in the component /ethash/algorithm.go.

  • High 7.5

    Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

    A design flaw in all versions of Go-Ethereum allows an attacker node to send 5120 pending transactions of a high gas price from one account that all fully spend the full balance of the account to a victim Geth node, which can purge all of pending transactions…

  • High 7.5

    Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

    A design flaw in Go-Ethereum 1.10.12 and older versions allows an attacker node to send 5120 future transactions with a high gas price in one message, which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node's memory pool, causing a denial of service (DoS…

  • Medium 5.5

    Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

    Go-Ethereum 1.10.9 nodes crash (denial of service) after receiving a serial of messages and cannot be recovered. They will crash with "runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" and arise a SEGV signal.

  • Medium 5.7

    DoS via maliciously crafted p2p message

    Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.9, a vulnerable node is susceptible to crash when processing a maliciously crafted message from a peer. Version v1.10.9 contains patches to the vulnerability. Th…

  • Medium 6.5

    Consensus flaw during block processing in go-ethereum

    go-ethereum is the official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In affected versions a consensus-vulnerability in go-ethereum (Geth) could cause a chain split, where vulnerable versions refuse to accept the canonical chain. Further details about the v…

  • Critical —

    Denial of service in go-ethereum due to CVE-2020-28362

    ### Impact Versions of Geth built with Go `<1.15.5` or `<1.14.12` are most likely affected by a critical DoS-related security vulnerability. The golang team has registered the underlying flaw as ‘CVE-2020-28362’. We recommend all users to rebuild (ideally `v1…

  • Medium 6.5

    LES Server DoS via GetProofsV2

    Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.25 a denial-of-service vulnerability can make a LES server crash via malicious GetProofsV2 request from a connected LES client. This vulnerabili…

  • Medium 5.3

    Consensus flaw during block processing

    Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth from version 1.9.4 and before version 1.9.20 a consensus-vulnerability could cause a chain split, where vulnerable versions refuse to accept the canonical chain. T…

  • Medium 5.3

    Erroneous Proof of Work calculation in geth

    Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch (estimated early January, 2021). Th…

  • Medium 6.5

    Shallow copy bug in geth

    Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. This is a Consensus vulnerability in Geth before version 1.9.17 which can be used to cause a chain-split where vulnerable nodes reject the canonical chain. Geth's pre-comp…

  • Medium 6.5

    Denial of service in geth

    Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.18, there is a Denial-of-service (crash) during block processing. This is fixed in 1.9.18.

  • High 7.5

    Go Ethereum Denial of Service

    cmd/evm/runner.go in Go Ethereum (aka geth) 1.8.17 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV) via crafted bytecode.

  • High 7.5

    Go Ethereum Improper Input Validation

    In Go Ethereum (aka geth) before 1.8.14, TraceChain in eth/api_tracer.go does not verify that the end block is after the start block.

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2018-12018 Public exploit

    Go Ethereum LES protocol implementation vulnerable to Denial of Service

    The GetBlockHeadersMsg handler in the LES protocol implementation in Go Ethereum (aka geth) before 1.8.11 may lead to an access violation because of an integer signedness error for the array index, which allows attackers to launch a Denial of Service attack b…