gsd-2022-37450
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:19
Details
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.
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Aliases
CVE-2022-37450


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