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CVE-2022-37450

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

• ethereum go-ethereum: through 1.10.21

References

• http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27813.99043
• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976/core/forkchoice.go#L91-L94
• https://medium.com/%40aviv.yaish/uncle-maker-time-stamping-out-the-competition-in-ethereum-d27c1cb62fef
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896
• http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27813.99043
• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976/core/forkchoice.go#L91-L94
• https://medium.com/%40aviv.yaish/uncle-maker-time-stamping-out-the-competition-in-ethereum-d27c1cb62fef
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896

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