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CVE-2021-42764

mitre — The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum consensus protocol through 2021-10-19 allows an adversary to cause a denial of service (delayed consens…

EPSS 1.0%CVSS 9.1
critical.is priorityof 100
40
CVSS 9.1 (NVD)9.1 / 10 × 3027.3Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 61.6.616 × 2012.3No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum consensus protocol through 2021-10-19 allows an adversary to cause a denial of service (delayed consensus decisions), and also increase the profits of individual validators, via short-range reorganizations of the underlying consensus chain.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
n/an/a–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

References

refarxiv.org/abs/2110.10086