CVE-2021-42764

2021-10-2019:28:20

mitre

www.cve.org

cve-2021-42764

denial of service

ethereum consensus

AI Score

9.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

42.7%

JSON

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.

References

arxiv.org/abs/2110.10086