Go Ethereum up to 1.10.21 Reward Riskless Uncle Making access control

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Go Ethereum up to 1.10.21. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Reward Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2022-37450. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Go Ethereum up to 1.10.21. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Reward Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented 08/06/2022. The advisory is available at medium.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-37450 since 08/05/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Go Ethereum

Version

• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.10.5
• 1.10.6
• 1.10.7
• 1.10.8
• 1.10.9
• 1.10.10
• 1.10.11
• 1.10.12
• 1.10.13
• 1.10.14
• 1.10.15
• 1.10.16
• 1.10.17
• 1.10.18
• 1.10.19
• 1.10.20
• 1.10.21

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